An unprecedented fossil of a baby dinosaur curled up perfectly inside its egg is shedding more light on the links between dinosaurs and birds. The 70-million-year-old fossil preserves the embryonic ...

The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where ...

The heat wave that killed 125 people in Mexico earlier this month is a harbinger of a warming climate, a new report has found. In May, a heat dome baked North America from the southwestern U.S. and ...

In the first of a new series, curator Dr Neil Adams shares the stories and science of the fossil mammal collection.

Everything about the discovery of a fossilized leatherback sea turtle in Alabama four years ago is fascinating. The findings of the never-before studied species were published in a study Friday, ...

Key points An estimated 8.7 million premature deaths occur globally each year from air pollution attributable to fossil fuel combustion alone.[1][1] Climate change, which is primarily caused by the ...