Conceptually, it’s a bit like mixing two dyes in a bucket. The bucket holds the genetics of the population, Neanderthals are ...

A quiet Nevada adventure filled with hidden valleys, glowing springs, secret trails, and breathtaking moments waiting off the main road.

The crossroads village brings together the commercial and social elements that formed the backbone of rural Wisconsin communities. The general store, stocked with period-appropriate merchandise, ...

Fossil hunters in Kenya have uncovered footprints on an ancient shore that are teaching us something entirely new about how ancient hominins lived.

Rock hyraxes, these stocky mammals from southern Africa often called "dassies," are now revealing unexpected information through their most unusual behaviors. These animals with dense fur and short ...

Gravely Serious Facts About Tombs and Crypts: 25 Most Bizarre Fossils Ever Discovered: Heres the thing about fossils: theyre not just old bones collecting dust in museums. Theyre little time capsules, ...

A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS) has made progress in studying the Shibantan biota in Yichang, Hubei Province, ...

A wealth of new Mussaurus eggs and skeletons suggests these Jurassic herbivores were among the first dinosaurs to travel in groups broken up by age. The long-necked dinosaur Mussaurus switched from ...

A version of the mythical Australian “drop bear”, a carnivorous marsupial resembling a koala, actually lived on the continent ...

Greetings from Bristol, where fall is just past its peak and the leaves are ripe for peeping. It's been a whirlwind few weeks on the road and, yet, I'd like to, for a multitude of reasons, freeze the ...

Around 290 million years ago, a very large reptile — possibly a Pareiasaur — roamed along the shore of Hillsborough Bay in P.E.I., leaving a footprint for an Islander to discover all these years later ...

Dinosaur “mummies” couldn’t have been further from my mind as I trudged up a grassy knoll on the Zerbst Ranch in east-central Wyoming, followed by University of Chicago undergraduates on a field trip ...