For the Indigenous Gayo, Alas, Kluet, Aneuk Jamee, and Karo peoples, Leuser is not merely a forest—it is sacred ancestral land. Their stewardship has kept the ecosystem intact for centuries. But in ...

Inside that coprolite (a fossilized piece of dung) paleontologists have discovered the oldest physical evidence of ...

This week, a fossilized skull offers new clues about a mysterious prehistoric human species, astronomers unlock missing ...

Durham University researchers discover Youti yuanshi, a fossil revealing the ancient ancestors of insects and their evolution ...

During the Northern Hemisphere’s summer solstice, the upper half of the earth is tilted toward the sun, creating the longest ...

Abundant fossil bones, teeth, trackways, and other hard evidence have revealed that Earth was the domain of the dinosaurs for at least 230 million years. But so far, not a single trace of dinosaur ...

While they branched off from animals more than 1 billion years ago, making them more closely related to us than plants are, there is a large gap in the fossil record. For hundreds of millions of ...

A new study by University of Arizona researchers bolsters the case that fossilized footprints in White Sands, New Mexico, are ...

WAUCHULA, Fla. — Fossil hunters can sift through dirt and clay-like material at Bone Valley Experience to dig for a hidden treasure, and Sarah Bates knows exactly what she hopes to find.

June 3, 2025 — A new study has finally confirmed the theory that the cause of extraordinary global tremors in September -- October 2023 was indeed two mega tsunamis in Greenland that became ...

What a Dinosaur Ate 100 Million Years ago—Preserved in a Fossilized Time Capsule June 10, 2025 — A prehistoric digestive time capsule has been unearthed in Australia: plant fossils found ...

Until now, the oldest known lepidopteran fossils dated back only to 201 million ... evolution leaves its trace. And in this case, it left a flutter.