Guy Plint is no stranger to tracking prehistoric beasts. Over the past 40 years, the Western Earth Sciences professor emeritus has studied the ...

Known today as the “Black Belt,” the southeastern United States was once covered by an ancient sea—one that continues to shape modern history.

A research team linked nearby stellar explosions to at least one, possibly two, mass die-offs after calculating the supernova ...

New research suggests the violent explosions of dying stars may have caused two of Earth’s biggest mass extinctions millions ...

Rare evidence about the lives of an ancient group of arthropods has been uncovered in the U.S. The findings of the study are ...

A study of the fossilised fur of six mammals from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods has found they were all greyish-brown ...

The six-mile-wide asteroid punched a one-way ticket toward extinction for all non-avian dinosaurs. Some 66 million years ...

An international team of scientists has synchronized key climate records from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to unravel the ...

About 99 million years ago, this horned "hell ant" was in the midst of devouring a prehistoric cockroach when it got stuck in ...

Ichnology is the study of tracks and traces and, since 2008, the Cape South Coast Ichnology Project has documented more than ...

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy visited Gloucester County to help celebrate this new attraction for kids and adults with an ...

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...