Beneath an ordinary bridge in Washington lurks a giant troll that has turned an overlooked space into a wildly popular ...

A fossil found in South Africa proves for the first time that mammal ancestors laid eggs, according to researchers who ...

Most of us are fascinated to learn about the animals that used to walk the earth but unfortunately we have precious little to ...

From preserved plants to T. rex, the material found in these Late Cretaceous rocks has resulted in countless breakthroughs ...

New footage from Japan’s deepest ocean trenches has uncovered strange and previously unknown creatures, shedding light on one ...

For years, this fossil seemed to tell a thrilling story. Here was an animal from more than 300 million years ago that ...

If you trace the animal family tree back through the fossil record, the trail usually goes cold about 539 million years ago. Before this boundary—the start of the famous Cambrian explosion—multicelled ...

Nestled in hot springs in an Idaho canyon lives a creature smaller than a grain of rice, found nowhere else on Earth. The ...

Even as Hollywood still drives how Americans envision little green men with big eyes and bigger heads, fiction soon could be ...

The science fiction blockbuster wowed audiences with its depiction of space travel and more. Here's what NASA staff and other ...

Scientists have found evidence that a 300-million-year-old sea creature previously thought to be the world's oldest octopus is actually a nautilus relative.

The assemblage suggests that the ancestors of some of today's animal groups may have arisen before the famed Cambrian ...