The museum hopes that after learning about the planet’s prehistoric past, people will do more to preserve Earth’s future.

You might look at the Mississippi and think, "There's no way anything weird lives in there." Surprise—you'd be wrong. Lurking ...

Deep-sea fish adapt to some of the most extreme conditions on Earth. New research analyzing their evolution finds the same ...

It’s fun to imagine secret dinosaur survivors living today, hidden in a remote corner of Earth. But the truth of who made it ...

The museum is a 44,000-square-foot facility overlooking a 4-acre fossil-filled former sand quarry in Mantua, Gloucester ...

My brain is struggling to grapple with the latest addition to this otherworldly image, however, as scientists have revealed ...

Bizarre parasitic wasps preserved in amber about 99 million years ago had trap-like abdomens that they may have used to ...

A new carbon-neutral museum invites visitors to dig for fossils beneath a strategically sited mass-timber-and-concrete structure.

A remarkably complete plesiosaur fossil found in southern Germany is shedding light on the early evolution of these iconic ...

Rust can be incredibly annoying if it appears on your new bicycle or car, but if you are a free-floating baby marine animal ...

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet—where creatures glow and life survives under crushing pressure.

Despite growing interest in deep-sea mining, much of the deep ocean, particularly the midwater zone, remains poorly understood. A 2023 study in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone found that 88% to 92% of ...