Scientists found a 307 million-year-old fossil, Tyrannoroter heberti, revealing one of the earliest known land vertebrates ...

Human activity has lessened the resilience of modern coral reefs by restricting the food-fueled energy flow that moves ...

We know the main reason that the age of the dinosaurs came to an end: an asteroid impact on the Yucatán Peninsula some 66 million years ago. But how the dinosaurs’ reign began is far less clear—and ...

Beds of Bathymodiolus mussels provide important habitat for other deep-sea critters, including sea stars, scaleworms and limpets. NOAA Ocean Exploration. The deep sea is the large ...

Touren Pope, 11, discovered a nearly 50-million-year-old fossil while hunting for rocks with his grandparents in Wyoming.

Buried beneath India's ancient rock beds, scientists uncovered a prehistoric anomaly so rare it defies everything we thought ...

Casper, Wyo. - As kids we often dreamed about dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures, but one kid has made those dreams ...

A project to show parents and youngsters the 112 million-year history to be found along the coast is returning.

Scientists from several countries have identified a new dinosaur species called Foskeia pelendonum, a very small plant-eating ...

Project CLEAN (Catalytic Low-temperature Efficiency for Advanced Decontamination), a four-year research project involving ...

CT scans also indicate Archaeopteryx had nerve endings in the end of its beak—part of what’s known as a bill-tip organ. Again ...