NASA’s Mars rover is on the trail of a geological mystery in the Jezero crater. While exploring an area known as Witch Hazel ...

Researchers have discovered fossil human footprints embedded in an ancient lakebed that show humans inhabited North America ...

Newly discovered 140-million-year-old tracks rewrite the history of African dinosaurs and reveal how earthquakes preserved ...

A team of scientists found prehistoric animal footprints that indicate how creatures behaved in Oregon as far back as 50 ...

Detail of ammonite fossil shell with mineral crystals inside. Image via Depositphotos. The backyard’s geological history spurred interest among paleontologists. Nearby layers of sediment and rock ...

Perhaps the first record of them in the human canon dates to the fifth century B.C.E., in Herodotus’s Histories, when he makes note of shell-like fossils embedded in the limestone blocks of the ...

Perhaps the first record of them in the human canon dates to the fifth century B.C.E., in Herodotus’s Histories, when he makes note of shell-like fossils embedded in the limestone blocks of the ...

Pérez unearthed the fossilized remains of an ichthyosaur — a dolphin-like marine creature that ruled the Mesozoic seas.

Billions of years ago, the Blue Planet wasn’t exactly blue. Researchers have found that Earth’s first oceans may not have been blue at all like today. Instead, they may have gleamed in shades ...

The cave, a labyrinth of narrow passages and towering chambers, offered a hidden treasure trove of fossils embedded in ancient rock layers. Researchers have spent years carefully extracting these ...

For this study, scientists irradiated feldspar rock samples collected from six ... researchers established a precise timeline for the embedded fossils, thus offering fresh insights into the ...

This ice age bison skull with an embedded spear point is part of the personal collection Jim Pollard used to open a natural history museum in Blue Earth. Pollard has been collecting fossils for ...