For years, a set of tiny structures locked inside Brazilian limestone served as one of paleontology’s most tantalizing clues: ...

Shark teeth are everywhere once people start noticing them. They turn up in fossil shops, washed along beaches, buried inside ...

Researchers have documented India’s first evidence of a plastic-rock formation called ‘plastistone’, from Maharashtra’s ...

The Trump administration’s latest lawsuit against Minnesota aims to short-circuit a six-year effort by Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison’s office to hold two fossil-fuel companies and the ...

KS3/GCSE Geography. Coasts and rocks. Liz Bonnin introduces a clip examining the geology of the Jurassic Coast in southern ...

The myriapoda group of arthropods includes the many-legged centipedes and millipedes that most people are familiar with.

Tyrannosaurs may be famous as fearsome apex predators, but new research reveals a more opportunistic—and slightly grim—side to their behavior. Using high-resolution 3D scans, a researcher identified ...

Every year, millions of visitors stand at the clifftop lookouts along Victoria's Great Ocean Road and gaze out at the Twelve ...

Better catalysts, solar-powered chemistry, and liquid modeling help chemical manufacturers cut emissions, reduce energy use, ...

From preserved plants to T. rex, the material found in these Late Cretaceous rocks has resulted in countless breakthroughs for paleontologists Mountains in Montana’s Makoshika State Park, where some ...

Pohlsepia mazonensis, a visually underwhelming fossil from Illinois, fundamentally broke our understanding of cephalopod evolution. Described in 2000 and hailed as the oldest known octopus in the ...

In 2000, researchers described an odd fossil found not far from Chicago. It had a round body, finlike structures on one end and a tangle of arms. The fossil was classified as an octopus and named ...