Up to 50 percent of species—which included 12 bird species and 4 frog species—on Aotearoa’s North Island went extinct before ...

Ancient magnetic fossils reveal that animal navigation using Earth’s magnetic field may have evolved far earlier than ...

For more than half a century, some of Earth’s strangest fossils looked like they had washed in from an alien world. Pillow-shaped impressions, quilted fronds and ribbed disks sat in museum drawers, ...

A mysterious 420-million-year-old ancient life form challenges evolution, defying classification as plant, animal or fungus.

More than 3.5 billion years ago, the Earth was not the hospitable world we know today. The atmosphere lacked oxygen, the seas ...

Ever since their discovery more than 165 years ago, massive fossilized structures left by an organism known as Prototaxites have proven impossible to categorize. Researchers in the UK have suggested ...

That’s exactly what awaits at Makoshika State Park in Glendive, Montana – a geological masterpiece that somehow remains one of the state’s best-kept secrets. Montana’s largest state park is hosting an ...

A routine parking lot project at Dinosaur National Monument has unearthed dinosaur fossils at the site for the first time in more than a century. Workers uncovered the fossils near the Quarry Exhibit ...

Marcello Hernández learned the hard way on “Saturday Night Live” that each week is a clean slate — and not all of them are going to be home runs. Sitting with Brittany Broski on her “Royal Court” ...

Skeletal remains that washed up on a Washington beach have been identified as those of a former Oregon mayor who vanished in 2006, ending a 20-year mystery with the help of genetic genealogy. Edwin ...

The remains of a former Oregon mayor have been identified two decades after his disappearance, according to the forensics laboratory that helped confirm the ID. Edwin Asher was declared dead in 2006, ...

SYDNEY, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Human remains were found in Australia's southeast where bushfires raging for days have razed buildings, cut power to thousands of homes and burned swathes of bushland, ...