As the Madre de Dios River flows through Peru toward the Amazon, it eats away at the landscape, slowly turning rock into mud.

Eight green sea turtles were released back into the Atlantic Ocean on Tuesday, nearly a month after an arctic blast brought a ...

The discovery of a well-preserved fossil is helping researchers learn more about an iconic Jurassic-period dinosaur. The ...

If you love scales, spiders and sharks, good news: following a year of work and renovations, one of the biggest museums in ...

Researchers Baffled After Mistaking Young Turtle Shells to be Oval-Shaped Plant Fossils, Bones Looked Like Plant Veins A ...

Serpentine-necked, four-flippered plesiosaurs were among the most successful marine predators in the time of dinosaurs.

Over the past decade, the plastic straw came to symbolize a global pollution crisis. Here's more about the larger fight over ...

Some paleontologists think that fossils recovered from Antarctica are evidence of birds similar to modern geese and ducks ...

SPRINGFIELD — A revamped exhibit at the Springfield Science Museum begins with an eastern box turtle as a greeter, a colony ...