Gairloch Museum plans to build the new route to the village's Carn Dearg Youth Hostel. Roy Macintyre, one of those leading the project, said the trail would celebrate "deep time", the geological ...

Winter is settling over the rolling hills of North Idaho, where I live. Snow ices the limbs of the bare aspens outside my window, while perfect flakes fall from the flat gray sky. This weather is my ...

Explore some of the specimens in the National Museum of Natural History's 31,000-square-foot fossil hall, which explores the epic story of how Earth's distant past is connected to the present and ...

Dinosaur eggshells, once treated as background scenery in fossil digs, have turned out to be some of the most precise timekeepers in the deep past. By decoding the chemistry locked into these fragile ...

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed the ancient genomes of human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) from archaeological human remains more than two millennia old. The study, led by the ...