According to NASA, Lake Untersee is an underground body of water resting in the snow-capped peaks of East Antarctica. Hidden like a time capsule, it p.

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.” ...

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

If someone showed you photos of Onyx Cave without context, you’d probably assume they were concept art from the latest space ...

Researchers have found a well-preserved and nearly complete skeleton of one of the world's smallest-known dinosaurs, named Alnashetri cerropoliciensis, in Argentina’s Patagonia region, where massive ...

A ‘smiling’ fossil has gone viral after being discovered by a tourist on Holy Island. Christine Clark visits Northumberland ...

A 16-million-year-old ant queen trapped in amber has revealed the first fossil trace of her kind in the Western Hemisphere. The discovery shows that these small ground-living ants were already part of ...

In a recent study, University of Alaska Fairbanks paleontologist Matthew Wooller and his colleagues radiocarbon-dated what they thought were pieces of two mammoth vertebrae, only to get a whale of a ...

A three-toed footprint appeared in the rock, slightly longer than my hiking boot. The outlines weren’t crisp, but the impression was deep enough to collect sand grains and pebbles. This impression is ...

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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Former President Obama said he did not see evidence that aliens “have made contact with us,” after sending social ...

Former President Barack Obama said he did not see evidence that aliens "have made contact with us," after sending social media abuzz by saying aliens were real on a podcast over the weekend. During a ...