There are roughly 2.5 million known species on the planet, but scientists estimate that's only a fraction of the biodiversity on Earth. A new study shows we're finding new species like never before.

Few moments in paleontology are as exciting as the discovery of dinosaur eggs. These fragile and ancient specimens offer a ...

Single-cell bacteria, in shallow marine waters, altered the composition of liquid and air – as the planet heaved around them. Their fossils still stand, not far from you.

Prehistoric sea monster bigger than a killer whale may have terrorised rivers too - The mosasaur may have occupied a similar ...

Radiocarbon dating conducted as part of the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Adopt a Mammoth Project showed that the fossils ...

All Liaoningosaurus specimens come from Liaoning Province in northeastern China. Many remarkable fossils from the Cretaceous Period, between 145 and 66 million years ago, have been unearthed in this ...

Scientists have discovered a 151-million-year-old fossil fly in Australia that challenges ideas about insect evolution. Named ...

The now-extinct sea cow species, Salwasiren qatarensis, was discovered thanks to an examination of 21-million-year-old ...

UCI Health — Irvine is making national history as the first all-electric acute care hospital in the United States. Instead of ...

The bonebed contains the 21-million-year-old remains of sea cows, sharks, barracuda-like fish, prehistoric dolphins and sea ...

A pair of woolly mammoth vertebrae in Alaska have been dated to around 2,000 years old, making them by far the most recent evidence for the existence of this extinct beast ever recorded. However, upon ...