Eastern Africa's Turkana Rift is both a hotbed for fossil discoveries of our earliest ancestors and a literal hotbed of ...

Earth responded to its most severe past warming event by evolving a new and bizarre type of photosynthesis that allowed a ...

Rather than slowly condensing over millions of years, the first building blocks of Earth and other planets may have formed ...

The scientific wonderers at What If fast-forward through billions of years of geological and biological change to show the ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- A long hospital stay can be very isolating for many. And for a child, it can be even more lonely. Unless you find a best friend. Two young patients at Johns Hopkins All ...

Every year, millions of visitors stand at the clifftop lookouts along Victoria’s Great Ocean Road and gaze out at the Twelve ...

New fossil discovery reveals 535 million-year-old worms, annelids, that were already crawling and swimming, reshaping early ...

A long-standing mystery in southern Africa’s fossil record is beginning to unravel. After massive lava flows 182 million ...

Scientists think Neanderthal children may have had faster growth rates because larger bodies tend to retain heat more ...

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National Geographic's Wonder Lessons will teach you how to navigate the stars, spot cloud types, recognize common trees, and identify different kinds of rocks. Today, we’re learning how different ...

A new study of a Neanderthal toddler reveals that our closest evolutionary relatives' growth patterns differed from those of ...