Such is the case with Makoshika State Park, a sprawling 11,538-acre wonderland of fantastical badland formations nestled in Montana’s eastern reaches near Glendive. Let me be perfectly honest—this ...

Tsunamis are powerful ocean waves caused primarily by undersea earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, or even meteor ...

Subtle genomic variations between humans and Neanderthals provide clues to how DNA shapes our facial features.

The decaying reptiles could solve several of paleontology’s biggest mysteries from why some fossils preserve fragile soft ...

This video explores the extraordinary era when dinosaurs reached sizes the planet could barely sustain. It examines the ...

Kissing stretches back roughly 21 million years, to the shared ancestor of humans and other large apes, according to the ...

Sixty-six million years ago, a group of South American sauropods developed a surprising evolutionary advantage: the ability ...

Many paleontologists believe that the shape of fossilized pigment containers in cells can help determine dinosaur colors. But some remain skeptical.

A multidisciplinary team of researchers has combined deep botanical knowledge with powerful genomic technology to decode and mine the DNA of non-flowering seed plants and uncover genes that evolved to ...

Hunting is considered critical to human evolution by many researchers who believe that several characteristics that ...

When you look at a fossil on display, you may envision the world 66 million years ago. You might feel the earth shake beneath ...