If life ever existed on Mars, it might have looked like microfossils right here on Earth.

The climate record holds some of its best warnings in stone, soil, and leaves. In a new study, scientists from the University of Utah and the Colorado School of Mines looked back to one of Earth’s ...

The Trump administration's revocation of a scientific finding that climate change is a danger to public health is likely to affect communities of color the most.

President Trump touts economic gains and border security in second-term State of the Union, setting the stage for midterm ...

A ‘smiling’ fossil has gone viral after being discovered by a tourist on Holy Island.

The soda straws are another geological oddity that sounds more like a menu item than a cave feature. These thin, hollow tubes ...

So here’s the situation: you live in Virginia, which gives you access to one of the most spectacular underground attractions ...

Forgotten fossils from the Kimberley show how marine amphibians rebounded and spread across the globe after the end-Permian mass extinction.

Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...

Researchers have found new data to support the "drunken monkey" hypothesis; the idea that human attraction to alcohol may be ...

A lost cache of 250-million-year-old fossils from Australia has rewritten part of the story of life after Earth’s worst mass extinction. Instead of a single marine amphibian species, researchers ...