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

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Maryland is the first state in the country with an official state shark.

Paleontologist John Moretti searching for fossils in the stream that flows through Bender’s Cave. Credit: John Moretti. Deep beneath the limestone of Central Texas, an underground stream has yielded a ...

The 'Nobody Wants This' actor is dad to 14-year-old twins Erin Clack is a Staff Editor for PEOPLE. She has been writing about fashion, parenting and pop culture for more than 15 years. Rodin Eckenroth ...

Breathing with your ribs feels so normal that it’s easy to forget it’s an invention. The chest expands, the lungs inflate, and oxygen flows in – no gulping, no throat pumping, and no reliance on damp ...

In 2000, researchers described an odd fossil found not far from Chicago. It had a round body, finlike structures on one end and a tangle of arms. The fossil was classified as an octopus and named ...

In Los Angeles, scientists are delighted to decode one of the richest fossil records on Earth A visitor gazes at a statue of a giant short-faced bear. At around 11 feet tall, the Ice Age animal was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With a wetsuit and goggles, paleontologist John Moretti searches for fossils in the stream that flows through Bender's Cave in ...