The stocks of renewable-energy companies led S&P 500 decliners early Wednesday, after former President Donald Trump won a sweeping victory in the U.S. presidential election. Trump, who has denied that ...

A new 450-million-year-old arthropod fossil, Lomankus edgecombei, has been uncovered in New York, revealing crucial ...

Some of the incredible fossil discoveries of the 21st century make you understand how little we know about the prehistoric times on Earth.

A routine clam survey took an unexpected turn off the Virginia coast when a mysterious bone with big black teeth was pulled ...

"You never know unless you look," said Jayson Kowinsky, a high school physics teacher from Pittsburgh who, while sifting around in the New Jersey dirt, found a fossil that helped fill out the puzzle ...

NEW YORK — Scientists have discovered the oldest-known fossil of a giant tadpole that wriggled around over 160 million years ...

Evolutionary biologists report they have analyzed a fossil of an extinct giant meat-eating bird -- which they say could be the largest known member of its kind -- providing new information about ...

The previous tallest members of the family were almost 3 meters high, and this was probably substantially bigger.

That was the case for Luke Parry, a paleobiology professor at Oxford University, who announced this week that he had ...

New fossil discoveries reveal three Thylacine species from 23 million years ago, highlighting rapid evolutionary diversification and expanding knowledge of ancient ecosystems. The last of the ...

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump have starkly different track records on climate change. To ...

The world's most popular natural history museum is dedicated to understanding the natural world and our place in it. Delve into the fascinating story of our planet, from its fiery beginnings through ...