A groundbreaking discovery in Morocco reveals a new duckbilled dinosaur species that challenges our understanding of dinosaur ...

Kirt Kempter likes to tease conservation groups about their efforts to try to stop erosion in the Galisteo Basin. As a geologist, he contextualizes time a bit differently than other people. He knows ...

Geologists have added a new period to their official calendar of Earth's history - the first in 120 years. The Ediacaran Period covers some 50 million years of ancient time on our planet from 600 ...

A major collection of more than 50 bird fossils found in northern Alaska suggest some ancient ancestors of modern birds ...

As a result, by 100 million years ago, the forests of Victoria included an open conifer-dominated forest canopy. The ...

Spring in the Arctic brings forth a plethora of peeps and downy hatchlings as millions of birds gather to raise their young.

Palynologists who study tiny pollen fossils share 4 stories found in grains that fell hundreds to millions of years ago.

Geologists find giant mosasaur vertebra in Mississippi, a marine predator that ruled the seas 66 million years ago, ...

Tom is a writer in London with a Master's degree in Journalism whose editorial work covers anything from health and the environment to technology and archaeology.

It can tell us about vegetation, climate and even human activity through time. Pollen grains are far more than allergens — ...

T. rex evolved in North America from Asian ancestors. Climate shifts and extinction events helped tyrannosaurids and ...