A gold ring with a red gemstone found in Israel dates to the Hellenistic period and may have been buried in a coming-of-age ...

Fossilized footprints discovered in Victoria, Australia, are rewriting reptile evolutionary history. Dating back 359 million ...

A team of experts assert it’s the jawbone of an ancient mosasaur. Dissenters in Alberta say it’s too good to be true. Testing ...

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Minnesota Legislature approves bill naming the giant beaver state fossil, inspired by Eden Prairie students and science ...

When a new fossil is found, scientists are often excited and hypothesizing about the meaning and impact, however, this fossil ...

Sensory features on the armored exoskeletons of ancient fish may be the reason why humans have teeth that are sensitive to ...

His genome diverged from those of other late Neanderthals around 105,000 years ago. That’s a staggering timespan. Thorin’s ...

The National Park Service invites members of the public to learn about saber-toothed cats, mastodons, giant ground sloths and ...

DNA analysis has revealed that 26 novel species of "extremophile" bacteria were lurking in a clean room that housed NASA's ...

Anyone who has ever squirmed through a dental cleaning can tell you how sensitive teeth can be. This sensitivity gives important feedback about temperature, pressure—and yes, pain—as we bite and chew ...