A fossil hunt in Kentucky turned into a race against the rain as the group searched a road cut full of ancient marine fossils. The strongest moment came when he flipped over a brachiopod fossil and ...

At first, they looked like muddy chunks of ancient shell. But these 20-million-year-old fossil oysters had been slowly ...

Good things come in small packages, and that has never been truer than at Indiana's smallest state park, a treasure trove of ...

Using the Keck Observatory, astronomers measured the spins of dozens of giant planets and brown dwarfs orbiting distant stars ...

Crude oil is a product of natural processes down there. It’s a renewable energy source, in fact.

The sharks are said to have a 'ridiculously horrendous' face that not even a 'mother would love' ...

Scientists have confirmed the world's largest scorpion ever discovered. The giant predator, Praearcturus gigas, lived 415 ...

(Gerard Soury/The Image Bank/Getty Images) In an abyssal chasm yawning deep beneath the Indian Ocean, a vast 'city of the ...

The first animals to crawl out of the muck for a life on land may have made the voyage on a lot of tiny legs. They were the millipedes, and 425-million-year-old fossils indicate they were among the ...

The deep-sea species is rarely observed in the wild, scientists say.

Scientists have unearthed communities of marine life — including jellyfish, tubeworms and brittle stars — thriving on a ...

'They are ridiculously horrendous to look at.' ...