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Sometimes, there are benefits to being clumsy - so discovered 9-year-old Jude Sparks on a recent hike in New Mexico's Orange Mountains. On a trip with his family, Sparks tripped over an object which he first thought was “just...

A group of miners in Canada accidentally stumbled upon what is possibly the most intact dinosaur carcass science has ever seen. They discovered the fully-preserved nodosaur, a herbivore that stretched 18-feet-long and weighed...

Around four billion years ago, bacteria formed tiny tubes and filaments, likely in deep-sea hydrothermal vents. An international team of scientists lead by the University College London (UCL) recently discovered those microorganism...

If you ask most people to guess why turtles first developed shells, you'll usually get one answer: the hard shells protect them from predators. That's the theory scientists have been working with for decades, however a new...

With the discovery of a tooth here or a bone fragment there, archaeologists piece together the history of humanity - and a recent discovery on the Indonesian island of Flores provides new insight into human evolution...

Of all the things scientists would like to know about the Earth, and there are many, identifying the first animal that existed on the planet is a big one...

When working on an expansion project in the north end zone at Resser Stadium at Oregon State University, the last thing construction crew were expecting to find was a field full of bones...

When actor Nicolas Cage bought a 70 million year old Tyrannosaurus bataar skull at auction for $276,000 in 2007, he had no way of knowing that it had actually been smuggled illegally into the United States...

When actor Nicolas Cage bought a 70 million year old Tyrannosaurus bataar skull at auction for $276,000 in 2007, he had no way of knowing that it had actually been smuggled illegally into the United States...

If you were to travel back 550 million years ago, you would be forgiven for thinking that you'd accidentally arrived on an alien planet. The Earth's ecosystem, entirely confined to the ocean, would have been populated by...

Although the global climate of the Mesozoic Era was considerably warmer and wetter than it is today, the planet still maintained a diversity of biomes...

The ancient ancestors of the human-sized coelacanth breathed with lungs, according to a new study. The modern coelacanth, like most fish, uses gills to get oxygen from the water, but its dinosaur-age ancestors also had a...

The geopark's public plaza needed to take into account the site's commercial interests while preserving its historical, natural, and cultural significance...

The geopark's public plaza needed to take into account the site's commercial interests while preserving its historical, natural, and cultural significance...

As we trudge into what scientists are calling the Holocene extinction, it is difficult to ignore the destructive power that humans wield over the natural world...