Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

New research shows that a fossilized plant from the Green River Formation is even stranger than scientists originally thought ...

Some of us remember the first Earth Day, Saturday, April 22, 1970. We pulled old bedsprings and tires out of local rivers and urged a ban on phosphates that fueled weed growth in streams and ...

NASA's Perseverance rover collects Martian soil samples from Jezero Crater, revealing potential signs of past life on Mars.

Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids ...

In 1992, a paleontologist unearthed the fossil of a prehistoric bird called "Vegavis iaai" in Antarctica and hypothesized that it was an early relative of today's ducks and geese. However, because the ...

Trovants are rocks that grow by absorbing minerals from rainwater. Romania is home to a cluster of trovants that inspired ...

In the heart of San Francisco, California, there’s a place where the curious and the quirky collide, where the past meets the ...

The discovery of a 69-million-year-old bird fossil is reshaping our understanding of avian evolution.

Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell ISBN: 978-0-316=49755-8 Paperback, 2024 Jeff Goodell’s latest book is a ...

"The fact that the latest robust Copernicus data reveals the January just gone was the hottest on record, despite an emerging La Niña, which typically has a cooling effect, is both astonishing and, ...

A recently analyzed near-complete fossil skull found in Antarctica has revealed Vegavis iaai to be the oldest known modern bird, according to a study published in Nature.