Happy new year! If you're a redhead, the pigments in your hair are protecting you from cellular damage. A post-stroke ...

Barry Norbeck donated thousands of documented fossil shells to the Calvert Marine Museum on Jan. 9, 2026, enhancing its Miocene collection with material from now-inaccessible sites along Calvert ...

About 445 million years ago, Earth nearly wiped out life in the oceans. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...

We cracked open rocks that are over 425 million years old and found incredibly well-preserved fossils inside. Some of these ...

Ancient fossils from Moroccan caves, dated with rare precision, offer rare insight into early human evolution.

Fossils from Morocco, dated to 773,000 years ago, reveal an early Homo sapiens lineage, shedding light on Africa’s role in ...

Now, a new Nature study points to an answer by catching four planets at a stage most systems never show us: The awkward, ...

Despite multiple mass extinctions, the frilled shark has managed to thrive for 100 million years. Today, it remains one of ...

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in ...

Tenontosaurus fossils found in West Texas, the southernmost record of the dinosaur and a key to the Early Cretaceous.

The Natural History Museum of Denmark houses a unique collection of 70,000 pieces of amber from various time periods.

An unassuming rock layer in the Grand Canyon just exposed a fossil secret that changes everything we thought we knew.