Human footprints stir the imagination. They invite you to follow, to guess what someone was doing and where they were going.

We collected fossils from the surface and dug geological step trenches to document the sediment ... The lake margin habitat offered food in the form of reeds, freshwater bivalves, fish, birds and ...

This compelling study is a splendid advance in approximately doubling the number of sequenced chiton genomes, providing what appears to be among the best genome annotations for chiton genomes ...

A now-dead clam nicknamed “Ming” is the oldest living individual animal ever found at 507 years old. Rating: True (About this ...

A now-dead clam nicknamed “Ming” is the oldest living individual animal ever found at 507 years old.

called the deep dive into dino droppings “insightful and innovative,” for putting some of the “most maligned fossils” under scrutiny. “Academic paleontologists can be prone to toilet ...

In an astonishing discovery, scientists have uncovered a clam species believed to have vanished over 40,000 years ago. Known ...

A collection of 3-million-year-old bones unearthed 50 years ago in Ethiopia changed our understanding of human origins. Fifty years ago, our understanding of human origins began to change with the ...

In addition to touting the need to boost fossil fuels, Trump has disparaged subsidies for clean energy investments and called for “terminat[ing]” the funds that were allocated for those ...

Fifteen Upper Cretaceous marine fossils were found, indicating that Neanderthals may have gathered these objects for reasons beyond practical utility. Collecting objects simply for their aesthetic ...