A Harvard physicist who once accepted evolution without question says a surprising encounter with faith forced him to rethink ...

Discover secret Nevada destinations with surreal beauty, charm, and storybook scenery that feels far removed from the usual ...

I knew I was going to love Pokémon Pokopia the moment I pressed the shoulder button and - instead of whipping out a ...

Once in a while, a fossil preserves behavior - and in 1923, a small feathered theropod from Mongolia seemed to be caught red-handed over a clutch of eggs, earning the name Oviraptor, the “egg thief.” ...

Humans have practiced head shaping for tens of thousands of years, and anthropologists are beginning to uncover clues as to ...

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws ...

Indigenous people in Papua, Indonesia, have helped scientists track down two animals that were thought to have gone extinct thousands of years ago: a relative of Australia’s greater glider and a ...

The new species, named after the electro funk band Chromeo, helps explain the larger story of why only one small group of dinosaurs survived the extinction. A fossil rarely reveals an animal’s entire ...

A newly described Patagonian fossil reveals the evolutionary origins and global spread of the tiny alvarezsaur dinosaurs.

The most complete known Australopithecus fossil, dubbed “Little Foot,” now has a face, albeit ...

Declassifying decades of unidentified aerial phenomenon records is turning out to be far slower and more complicated than a ...

You’ve probably followed the Mars rover missions on and off for years, watching those red-dust landscapes scroll across your TV screen and wondering: Could something have lived there once? Now, after ...