The Aurora Fossil Museum is hosting its annual NC Fossil Festival on Saturday and Sunday. With fossil digging, STEM education ...

A predator that swam Earth's oceans more than half a billion years ago is unlike any creature that lives on our planet today.

Excitement around the potential discovery of alien life on exoplanet K2-18b is fading as new analyses cast doubt on initial claims.

A fossil from British Columbia, originally discovered in the 80s, has finally been identified as a new species named ...

This is what is sometimes referred to as a living fossil, that’s because the organism has been around for some 390 million years. But our planet is changing and experts now say it could soon face ...

Animal life, emerging nearly 600 million years ago, showcases incredible diversity and unique traits. Unlike plants, animals ...

The findings, which offer a greater understanding of how species evolved in the past, were published in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution.

As such, a nonrenewable resource is a finite resource. Examples of nonrenewable resources include fossil fuels, oil, natural gas, and coal. The opposite of a nonrenewable resource is a renewable ...

Sterilizing robotic spacecraft to prevent contamination is one thing, but sterilizing human beings is impossible. We are ...

An asteroid strike 66 million years ago caused millions of species to go extinct—including many mollusks. By studying the ...

For the first time, a giant alatoconchid bivalve fossil has been discovered by researchers in Central China's Hubei Province, ...

A fossil once believed to reveal the origin of mollusks turns out to belong to one of Earth’s weirdest ancient creatures ...