From butterflies to blue whales, corals and worms, Earth is home to an incredible diversity of animals. How all of these ...

But more than half a billion years ago this wilderness was an ancient seafloor home to the wrinkled pancakes, fleshy fronds ...

Researchers have uncovered a remarkable fossil site in a remote part of Canada's Northwest Territories, offering ...

Construction at a high school uncovered millions of fossils dating back nearly 9 million years. The fossils include unique species of fish that had never been found in the area before. The discovery ...

Learn about Earth’s history with five fossils that have stories to tell Paul D. Taylor and Aaron O'Dea Though massive creatures may look like a dinosaur, the Dimetrodon lived 50 million years before ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

Bountiful remains of foraminifera reveal how organisms responded to climate disturbances of the past Tim Vernimmen, Knowable Magazine Studying foraminiferan fossils can help us understand how the ...

Utah sits on one of the richest dinosaur graveyards on the planet. But before those prehistoric discoveries ever make it onto ...

You can’t count on grizzly bears to help out with research in paleontology. But it can happen, according to Anthony “Tony” Fiorillo, executive director of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and ...

If you want to know the reason Nevada’s State Fossil is the shonisaurus popularis, you should visit Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park. Here, you can take a trip to the remote wilderness that you can see ...

The courtyard of San Pedro High School where millions of fossils were found.Austin Hendy/Courtesy of the Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County For decades, students at San Pedro High walked ...