Charles Darwin worried that the fossil record looked strangely abrupt, with complex animals appearing in a geological instant ...

Recently, a video showing peoplecollecting marine fossils from the summit of a mountain went viral, leaving many puzzled.

The oldest fossilised remains of complex animals appear suddenly in the fossil record, and as if from nowhere, in rocks that ...

Andy questions the motive regarding the emergence of “Industrial AI” and a fusion reactor startup at this year’s Consumer ...

Rare fossils found along the Colorado River 'give us a fuller picture of what life was like during the Cambrian period,' says ...

JFK and Jackie Kennedy were among the last celebrities to sleep in the rolling penthouse railway car that was the star of the ...

Radioactive minerals in eggshells can help scientists pinpoint a fossil’s age with stunning accuracy. Scientists excavate dinosaur egg nests in Mongolia's Eastern Gobi Basin. National Geographic ...

One of the planet’s most successful arthropods, trilobites, abounded in the oceans from about 520 million to 250 million years ago. Trilobite exoskeletons are found on all seven continents and are a ...

For millions of years, the land we now call the United States has been home to towering prehistoric beasts, strange sea creatures, and lush ancient forests that no longer exist. Evidence of this ...

In 1945, workers at Brown University’s biology department were clearing out storage space when they stumbled on a giant trove of natural and ethnographic specimens and artifacts. The collection had ...