From an ancient Egyptian hoax to a mysterious disappearances and Cold War history, here are 10 bizarre facts you probably ...

The entertainment industry has a history of portraying fossil fuels as immoral and destructive. But when a transgender woman ...

New fossils link a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, a species that mixed climbing skills ...

A team of researchers has discovered 16,600 footprints belonging to theropods — the dinosaur group that includes the ...

Back in September, Malinda Barberio received an email from someone claiming to have a Wollemi pine. No way, thought Barberio, the University of Colorado Boulder greenhouse manager. “Because I know ...

A new dome-headed dinosaur speices found in Montana, Brontotholus harmoni, reveals unexpected clues about their evolution.

A fossil only tells part of the story. When an animal's body is preserved as a fossil, there are often pieces missing, and ...

Dinosaur fossils have been dug up for well over a century, but every so often something turns up inside them […] ...

Researchers have finally assigned a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, confirming that Lucy’s species wasn’t alone in ancient Ethiopia. This hominin had an opposable big ...

Scientists in Antarctica have uncovered a 66 million year old fossil egg, the largest reptile egg ever found, laid by a massive sea lizard called a mosasaur. This breakthrough, detailed in a recent ...