Have you ever wondered what the world looked like millions of years ago? Imagine walking in a place where every rock could ...

Coastal camping in Wales is properly good for the soul – and it’s no wonder more of us are pitching up for a slice of seaside ...

Humungous Biosciences is also responding to the challenge, set by Colossal with the dire wolf, of creating animals that never existed in reality. The first project is the unicorn, which can easily be ...

The Titan Beetle must leap off a tree in order to fly. ©SIMON SHIM/Shutterstock.com ... The explosion of giant insects began during the Carboniferous period, which lasted from 359 million to about 299 ...

What makes this discovery even more significant is the fossil’s age. It dates back to the Carboniferous Period, which was over 300 million years ago—long before dinosaurs roamed the Earth.

A routine fossil-hunting trip turned into a groundbreaking discovery for a pair of researchers when they stumbled upon a rare ...

For years, a mysterious fossil specimen defied categorization, until one paleontologist made a surprising discovery.

Scudder’s book, Mother, Creature, Kin: What We Learn From Nature’s Mothers in a Time of Unraveling. My day-to-day parenting ...

Typically, amber forms over millions of years as tree resin fossilizes, but paleontologists have sped that up, creating amber-like fossils from pine resin in 24 hours. The technique could help ...

Focused on Cambrian fossils, the study reanimates a species long trapped in the pages of forgotten paleontology.