In the fourth episode of our Stones & Bones video series, National Geographic digital editor Nicholas St. Fleur examines the ...

A tiny ancient reptile just revealed the moment breathing as we know it began — and it changed life on Earth forever.

An A-frame cabin at Fossil Butte National Monument was the home for a fossil miner as he discovered Wyoming artifacts. It ...

Archaeologists found 115,000-year-old human footprints where they shouldn't be—and they just might rewrite the history of ...

The letters can travel the world for years. One enthusiast is on a quest to find them—and to track down the writers behind ...

Scientists have determined that the mysterious golden mass is a remnant of the dead cells that formed at the base of a giant ...

Some 80 million years ago, the late Cretaceous oceans were patrolled by 17-meter mosasaurs, long-necked plesiosaurs, and ...

What can bones tell us about life millions of years ago? A paleobiologist decodes chemical clues to uncover how animals lived ...

New analyses of fossilized jaws reveal that massive, kraken-like octopuses once hunted alongside other marine predators.

Oil seep hydrocarbons and oxygen-free mud protected not only bones but also delicate tissues such as skin and cartilage.

Rare 450-million-year-old fossil, Paleocanna tentaculum, that provides a clearer link between ancient cnidarians and modern ...

Some octopuses that lived over 72 million years ago were as long as whales. These huge predators may have been the largest ...