This was not a polished museum fossil hunt it was a muddy river adventure through limestone banks, gravel bars, and fast-moving water. Almost everywhere they stopped, they found signs of ancient ...

After a Florida river stayed flooded for weeks, the water finally dropped low enough for fossil hunters to walk the freshly exposed banks. What they found was not just a few shells — it was a layer of ...

The post says this was a dream moment unfolding in real time after nine years of ocean swimming and countless marine life ...

Below the waves, giant marine reptiles, such as the fearsome 4m (13ft) long mosasaurs, were the undisputed apex predators. In artistic reconstructions of these ancient oceans, cephalopods – the animal ...

An ancient ocean retained oxygen despite global warming, revealing unexpected insights into oceanic climate change.

A long-neglected fossil seems to show the evolutionary leap that let the ancestors of today’s many-legged arthropods crawl ...

Earth's shallow ocean contained oxygen earlier than expected, rewriting the history of the origin of life during the "Boring ...

Giant, intelligent octopuses may have once ruled the ancient seas. Modern octopuses are known for their intelligence and ...

Some parts of this epic coral reef system weren’t even where the greatest reefs are found today. But remnants have survived.

The footage actually shows a years-old video from another continent, said to depict one of the most polluted rivers in the ...

About 600 million years ago, the continents wandered Earth, yet to settle into their current positions. Their locations during the Ediacaran (as this time is called) have been tough for scientists to ...

President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump hosted His Majesty King Charles III and Her Majesty Queen Camilla at ...