Stored in an open-air warehouse in tropical Darwin, Australia, are dozens of trays containing cylindrical cores of rock. They ...

Rebecca Totten, associate professor at the University of Alabama looks into the mud at the bottom of the Amundsen Sea in Antarctica. Totten, a micro-paleontologist studies microscopic fossils of sea ...

Monthly open houses at the Duke Lemur Center Museum of Natural History offer glimpses of work behind evolutionary discoveries As the Madre de Dios River flows through Peru toward the Amazon, it eats ...

Led by Scott Evans, assistant curator of invertebrate palaeontology at the American Museum of Natural History, it draws on ...

Careful digging eventually revealed a complete Ice Age mammoth tusk that measures at 7 feet, Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality said in an Aug. 9 press release. Mississippi Department of ...

America is rife with stunning outdoor activities, including discovering the remnants of an ancient past. These destinations are a joy for fossil hunters.

Early eukaryotes, the lineage that later gave rise to animals, plants and fungi, may have depended on oxygen from the start.