A remarkable new ichthyosaur species unearthed in Portugal is rewriting the story of Jurassic marine life and evolution.

A fossilized elephant skull found in the Kashmir Valley is reshaping how scientists understand an ancient giant’s past.

Breakthrough discovery of 123-million-year-old pollen grains in Portugal pushes back flowering plant evolution by 2 million ...

Paleontologists have uncovered 12 rare dinosaur teeth in China’s Songliao Basin, revealing surprising new insights that could ...

During the late stages of the last ice age, the Arabian Desert wasn't always the dry expanse you know today. In fact, recent ...

A recent study by Keifeng Yu and his colleagues, published in Acta Geologica Sinica, describes the discovery and identification of 12 new dinosaur teeth from the Upper Cretaceous Nenjiang Formation.

(46) In order to explore the correlation among thrust faulting, uplift exhumation, fluvial transport, and the sedimentary record, two samples of Shamuluo Formation sandstones were obtained from the ...

Flowers have been brightening Earth much longer than scientists previously believed—by at least two million years. In a new ...

A mineral called siderite found abundantly in rock drilled by a NASA rover on the surface of Mars is providing fresh evidence ...

Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal on a slab of sandstone ...

The Colorado River Basin’s groundwater supplies are dwindling, thanks to a combination of both natural events and human pumping activities, a new study has found. The critical Western system has ...