Barry Norbeck donated thousands of documented fossil shells to the Calvert Marine Museum on Jan. 9, 2026, enhancing its Miocene collection with material from now-inaccessible sites along Calvert ...

An artificial island of sand dredged from Indonesia's seafloor has accidentally revealed evidence of a long-lost sunken world, inhabited by early humans. Scattered across the newly created island, ...

(CNN) — Contrary to popular depictions of bee nests as large, intricate hives that hang from trees, the majority of bee species — about 90% — are actually solitary and build their nests in the ground ...

Experts and novices alike hunt for specimens that could change our understanding of evolution – and all only a short day trip from Melbourne ...

Around 410 million years ago, terrestrial life was relatively simple. There were no forests or prairies—land was largely dominated by slimy microbial mats. The types of plants that would eventually ...

In recent decades, scientists have debated whether a seven-million-year-old fossil was bipedal—a trait that would make it the oldest human ancestor. A new analysis by a team of anthropologists offers ...

Matthew Wooller couldn’t believe his ears after a California researcher rang his cellphone recently. The radiocarbon expert said a few of Wooller’s submitted fossils were from woolly mammoths that ...

At a site known as Natural Trap Cave, a team of scientists are rappelling down to uncover the secrets of what the Earth was like during the Pleistocene A shaft of golden light from the cave’s mouth ...