When admiring the natural beauty that are America's national parks, it can get tempting to pocket a rock or feather as a ...

While Newsom cites a 9% drop in homelessness, if true it would be from a base of nearly 200,000 Californians without homes.

For 75 years, a pair of fossils in the collection of an Alaska museum was believed to have come from a mammoth. Not so, says ...

A 67-million-year-old claw fossil reveals a new dinosaur species that may have used its hand spikes to snatch and pierce eggs ...

Paleoanthropologists have announced the world's most complete skeleton of Homo habilis, a human ancestor that lived more than ...

And in 2007, the Hollywood actor Nicholas Cage bought the skull of a Mongolian Tyrannosaurus bataar for $270,000 (£140,000), ...

Over the past half century, researchers have established that birds evolved from dinosaurs: specifically, the theropods, the ...

In a case of mistaken identity, fossils from two whales were disguised as the backbones of a woolly mammoth. The fossilized ...

A small predator discovered in China quietly transformed the way scientists understand dinosaurs. Fossil evidence revealed ...

The fossilized backbones of what appeared to be woolly mammoths have turned out to come from an entirely different and ...

Buried in Australia's so-called dead heart, a trove of exceptional fossils, including those of trapdoor spiders, giant cicadas, tiny fish and a feather from an ancient bird, reveal a unique snapshot ...

Scientists refine the timeline of sponge origins, showing soft-bodied ancestors likely evolved later than some chemical ...