The year's top paleontological wonders ranged from a 540-million-year-old penis worm to a decades-old rodent impression.

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

An international research team has uncovered 270-million-year-old fossil tracks belonging to a dog-like predator considered one of the earliest mammal ancestors on the island of Mallorca. Led by ...

Over 70 new species, from insects to dinosaurs, were identified in 2025 by combining fieldwork, museum collections, and ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an unexpectedly primitive appearance. While its braincase fits with classic ...

A newly described fossil from northern Australia reveals an 8 meter mega-shark that hunted in the age of dinosaurs, long ...

PLATE 1. Figures 1–4: Carcharhinus amblyrhynchoides (DGCUSB/BB-115,112), upper antero-lateral, Figures 5–6: Carcharhinus brevipinna (DGCUSB/BB-136), upper tooth, Figures 7–10: Carcharhinus perezi ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - During a fishing trip in southern Alabama, a family of four discovered a fossilized shell of a 32-million-year-old leatherback sea turtle. A family of four recently discovered ...

Everything about the discovery of a fossilized leatherback sea turtle in Alabama four years ago is fascinating. The findings of the never-before studied species were published in a study Friday, ...

Climate change increased the probability and intensity of more than 200 heat waves across the globe over the last two decades, according to a newly published study. The study, published Sept. 10 in ...

Calling all fossil hunters: the Australian outback awaits! Join this extraordinary adventure through the heart of Australia’s fossil frontier. Once a shallow inland sea millions of years ago, eastern ...

This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Trump administration has already added nearly $40 billion in new federal subsidies ...