Take a step into the fossil bed at the Edelman Fossil Park and Museum in Sewell, New Jersey, and you’ll find yourself completely immersed in the past. That’s because it’s the Garden State’s ...

Scientists have named a new ichthyosaur, Eurhinosaurus mistelgauensis, from fossils found in Mistelgau, Germany. The marine reptile had a dramatic overbite similar to swordfish and unique skeletal ...

Take a step into the fossil bed at the Edelman Fossil Park and Museum in Sewell, New Jersey, and you’ll find yourself completely immersed in the past. That’s because it’s the Garden State’s ...

When paleontologists dig up a fossil from the ground, how do they figure out the age of the piece of history? It’s not as simple as you may think. To discover more about jaw-dropping finds–like the ...

A University of Sydney student has developed a completely new way to peer inside coral fossils to recover lost records of past climate change. In collaboration with the Australian Nuclear Science and ...

A newly described fossil reveals that leeches are at least 200 million years older than scientists previously thought, and that their earliest ancestors may have feasted not on blood, but on smaller ...

The World Bank and other multilateral development banks recently have begun reconsidering their self-imposed restrictions on financing fossil fuel projects. This change is being prompted in part by ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A new report traces the life cycle of fossil fuels — from exploration and extraction to combustion and decommissioning — and found stark ...

The Southern Minnesota Museum of Natural History features fossils that range from 7,000 to 7 million years-old. Image: Jim Pollard/Southern Minnesota Museum of Natural History. Get the Popular Science ...

In Laos, archaeologists uncovered fossils suggesting that Homo sapiens left Africa 20,000 years earlier than previously believed. The remains, dated to between 86,000 and 68,000 years old, challenge ...