Despite seeming like a relatively stable place, the Earth's surface has changed dramatically over the past 4.6 billion years. Mountains have been built and eroded, continents and oceans have moved ...

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

Beneath a grassy mountain valley in central Colorado lies one of the richest, most diverse fossil deposits in the world. Petrified redwood stumps up to 14 feet wide and thousands of detailed fossils ...

For much of the twentieth century, a prevailing view in marine biology held that most major marine groups originated in ...

Under McFetridge Drive in Chicago, two stories down in the catacombs of the Field Museum of Natural History, Jack Wittry slides open a handmade wooden drawer. There are thousands of such drawers that ...

New method reveals chemical signs of early microbial life in ancient Earth rocks, showing photosynthesis evolved much earlier ...

Since 2021, paleontologist Wang Min and a team of researchers have spent their days excavating the fossil-rich deposits in Zhenghe County, in eastern China’s Fujian province. Layer by layer, they ...

New research challenges the view that rock wallabies rarely leave their rocky homes, with implications for modern ...

ALBANY, NY (WRGB) — It's back and bolder than ever! The Rock and Fossil Fun Fair at the New York State Museum is back! The two-day event returns after a five-year hiatus and is one of the museum's ...

The Dinosaur National Monument, which is located on the border between Colorado and Utah, was last excavated in 1924.