A complete Cretaceous shellfish fossil. (University of Portsmouth) Nature has imbued its mothers with many surprisingly ...

Across parts of Romania, particularly in the Buzau region and the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains, locals have long ...

Mission Dolores was founded by Spanish missionaries the same year the U.S. declared its independence. It has borne witness to ...

There’s a special kind of magic that happens when wooden bridges, cascading water, and Alabama forest come together in perfect harmony. The Jones Valley Loop Trail in Huntsville delivers exactly that ...

In the 45°C heat of the midday April sun, I swing my sledgehammer into the terracotta-varnished lobes of pillow basalt ...

Geologists studying some of the planet's oldest volcanic rocks have uncovered new evidence that water was playing a major ...

The Earth is four and a half billion years old, so why they started appearing then is unknown, as is the mechanism to make ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, Homo sapiens coexisted with Neanderthals, Homo neanderthalensis. Many of us living today ...

If you have ever hiked in the high peaks of Colorado, the Wasatch Range in Utah or the Tetons in Wyoming, you’ve almost ...

Discoveries at a Üçağızlı II cave in southern Turkey suggest that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens made similar tools, hunted ...

Ancient deep-sea organisms suggest movement, sexual reproduction, and complex animal life began earlier than previously thought.