Dinosaurs, for example, have an array of distinctive boney features—sockets, skull sutures, and more—that can help scientists tell their fossils apart from nonliving objects. "When you have a ...

We wandered slowly, without hurry, in Calanques National Park, where Jacques Cousteau and Louis Malle came in the 1950s to make The Silent World, a film that introduced a generation to undersea life.

Tight hip flexors, especially a deep muscle called the psoas, can silently stress your spine. Here's why this muscle deserves more attention—and how to strengthen it. Lower back pain is often ...

In 2014, a Malaysian Airlines flight mysteriously disappeared. A barnacle-encrusted piece of the plane's wing is one of the most important clues that has been found. New science may be able to ...

Here are a few places to catch a glimpse. Zoom in to see Cairngorms National Park. No one in Scotland can quite agree when the rewilding movement officially began, but one popular perspective sets ...

A few years earlier, geologists had identified the crater left by the asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago, killing off all the dinosaurs ... issue of National Geographic magazine.

But more than 125 million years ago, this vista was a savanna-like valley cut through with rivers and floodplains—a fitting home for two new hulking dinosaurs with sleek, crocodile-like skulls.

Whether carnivorous dinosaurs had lips has long been the stuff of paleo-debate. A new study finds evidence that flesh covered the predators’ teeth. Tyrannosaurus rex and other carnivorous ...

A hundred and forty-five million years ago, one particular sauropod dinosaur must have been downright miserable. Mucus dripping from its nostrils, the Jurassic herbivore suffered a fever and ...

The specimen is approximately two meters long and is on display at the Mesalands Dinosaur Museum in New Mexico. Photograph by National Park Service The two skeletons look similar to modern bats ...

Deep in the heart of Odzala-Kokoua National Park, Selah Abong’o froze, convinced she was about to encounter something out of legend: a mokele-mbembe, Congo’s mythical dinosaur. In 2003 ...

The tunnel under the Roman amphitheater in Arles, France, is dark and cool. The shade is a welcome relief from the blazing Mediterranean sun beating down on the amphitheater’s sand-strewn arena ...