Plate tectonics had arranged the world's continents into a single massive landmasses: Pangaea. Today I attempt to use my knowledge of geography to create a basic map of what this land might have ...

The Pangean-era structure "It's being torn apart in real time" keeps the planet on edge. The ocean plate is now being torn ...

The musical instrument, crafted in 1714 by Stradivari, the luthier most famously associated with the violin, sold for $11.3 million at a Sotheby's auction in New York Friday. The violin ...

New research suggests an ancient hotspot helped shape the Great Lakes, challenging traditional formation theories.

In a new study published in Science, a Belgian research team explores how genetic switches controlling gene activity define ...

Ancient DNA from 348 individuals suggests that pale skin became the predominant characteristic of people living in Europe ...

Roughly half a million years ago, a group of armadillo-like mammals, horses, and sloths met their end in a sinkhole in what ...

The fossil sheds light on interactions within the Cretaceous food web and may represent the first record of this type of ...

New research indicates that hominins migrated into Eurasia approximately 200,000 years earlier than previously believed, ...

A new exhibit featuring nearly 300 never-before-seen fossils will open at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science ...

dominating the skies throughout the Mesozoic Era (66 million to 252.2 million years ago). They were the first vertebrates on the planet to take flight. But such a well-preserved pterosaur fossil ...