LANSING -- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is taking the first step towards suing fossil fuel companies, alleging that years of intentional confusion and inaction by the industry has damaged the ...

For more than a century, fossils meant bones, shells and the occasional imprint of a leaf. Now, a wave of research is showing ...

“We’ve known that tiny fragments of ancient DNA can survive for long periods of time,” said Dr. Marcela Sandoval-Velasco of the Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics at the University of Copenhagen and ...

Origins Hall at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science has closed to make room for a new hall named “Ancient Life.” The new hall, which is expected to open in January, will feature about ...

Sixty-five miles southwest of Chicago, a small hill that looks like a prop from an Indiana Jones movie breaks up the flat, monotone landscape. Consisting of shale, sandstone and rocks from an old coal ...

When the remains of prehistoric creatures were discovered in Europe and the United States, it opened up a vociferous debate on the nature of time and the purpose of science. A lithograph illustrating ...

The questions of how humankind came to be, and whether we are alone in the universe, have captured imaginations for millennia. But to answer these questions, scientists must first understand life ...

Mammoths, dire wolves and saber-toothed cats. Oh my, what a fascinating walk through Pleistocene history is provided by a relatively new Southern Nevada state park. Ice Age Fossils State Park opened ...