The year's top paleontological wonders ranged from a 540-million-year-old penis worm to a decades-old rodent impression.

Our 24-hour day measures Earth’s rotation relative to the Sun, known as a solar day. This is slightly longer than Earth’s ...

A Tel Aviv University–led study of 160-million-year-old fossils shows that some feathered dinosaurs likely became flightless, challenging the idea that the evolution of flight followed a linear path ...

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Dr. David Schwimmer, an expert on the giant North American crocodilian genus Deinosuchus and a Columbus State University ...

Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But ...

Spending a few hours a week helping others may slow the aging of the brain. Researchers found that both formal volunteering ...

They uncovered a 2,000-year-old palace in the Republic of Georgia and a 1,500-year-old church in Iraq, which led to this ...

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CSHL postdoc Miguel Santo Domingo Martinez and colleagues in the Lippman lab have used CRISPR gene editing to produce more compact goldenberry crops, making them easier to grow and harvest. The ...

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After decades of excavation and debate, a new analysis argues that Little Foot — one of the most complete hominin fossils ...