The barrier islands off the coast of Georgia are littered with millions of oysters left behind by Indigenous peoples. New ...

The US' history goes back thousands of years, thanks to a wealth of archaeological sites that give insight into the first ...

The creatures cruised the world’s oceans with features we often associate with marine mammals, such as coats of blubber and ...

The find came in the fossil-rich outcrops of northeast Mississippi, near Starkville in the Prairie Bluff Formation, according ...

The experts believe the apex predator of the ancient ... feet long, though the M. hoffmannii is believed to be able to reach 50 feet in length. “We find them from time to time, but to find one ...

One person deciphering these ancient ... land-based ice — precariously so in West Antarctica. In 1978, glaciologist John Mercer warned that rising carbon dioxide levels could trigger the collapse of ...

And much of that desert land is wild and wonderfully remote, accessible only via foot or primitive roads ... Approximately one-third of the park—around 17,000 acres—is covered with ancient redwoods, ...

Long thought extinct, sebecid fossils found in the Dominican Republic are rewriting what we know about ancient predators in ...

Originally from South America, the charismatic tegu made its way to the United States via the pet trade of the 1990s. After ...

I wanted to make a point of placing the monsters within the daily life of Tokyo,” says the photographer Tess Ayano, who spent a Monday morning in March shooting models in an ...

Pockets of water exist that are so salty they behave more like dense syrup than seawater. These deep, hidden lakes are called ...

Mosasaurs were some of the most fearsome apex predators to ever stalk the Cretaceous era’s oceans. And according to ...