All that glitters is not gold. But in the world of fossil discovery, a golden glitter is plenty of cause for celebration − even if it's not real. That was the case for Luke Parry, a paleobiology ...

NEW YORK — Volcanoes were erupting on the mysterious far side of the moon billions of years ago just like on the side that we can see, new research confirms. Researchers analyzed lunar soil ...

The fossil, the end of a left tibiotarsus, a lower leg bone in birds equivalent to that of a human tibia or shin bone, dates back to the Miocene epoch around 12 million years ago. The bone ...

All that glitters is not gold. But in the world of fossil discovery, a golden glitter is plenty of cause for celebration − even if it's not real. That was the case for Luke Parry, a paleobiology ...

Geologists found that sandstones in Colorado, dating back 690 to 660 million years ago, were likely forced underground by the pressure of massive glaciers. A new study from the University of ...

Credit: Pibernat & Garcia-Castellanos. Around 5.5 million years ago, a dramatic event called the Messinian Salinity Crisis turned most of the Mediterranean Sea into a massive salt basin.

The newly identified creature, named Terastiodontosaurus marcelosanchezi, lived approximately 50 million years ago during the Eocene epoch, a study reported. Researchers described the species ...