The 98-page report, “‘We’re Dying Here’: The Fight for Life in a Louisiana Fossil Fuel Sacrifice Zone,” documents how residents of Cancer Alley suffer the effects of extreme pollution ...

The lush, tropical regions of Central and South America have long dazzled scientists with their plant diversity. These ...

Ella Al-Shamahi grew up a creationist, but her perspective shifted when she studied evolution at university. Today she’s a paleoanthropologist who hunts fossils in unstable territories to ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...

Most foraminiferan species reside on the seafloor, but paleontologists are particularly interested in planktonic species, ...

• Paleo Zone, featuring fossils displays by members of the North Carolina Fossil Club, the Smithsonian, and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.

In the David H. Koch Hall of Fossils, approximately 700 fossil specimens, many never before on display, tell the story of Earth’s deep past and tracks the history of life on this planet. The ...

One of the most fascinating periods in the evolution of the human lineage is the appearance of the first ancestors capable of bipedalism. Knowing the type of locomotion used by many fossil species ...

San Pedro High School discovered a deposit of marine fossils on campus in 2022 and began collaborating with local paleontologists to uncover secrets from the Palos Verdes Peninsula's geological past.

Fossil Fighters: Champions might be worth digging up, but it's too similar to its predecessor to be a significant find.

65 miles southwest of Chicago, a small hill that looks like a prop from an Indiana Jones contains many of the world’s best-preserved, most diverse fossils.

Why Smuggled Fossils Are Hurting Paleontology Parachute science and lingering colonialism in fossil studies have negatively impacted the discipline ...