The Religious ‘Nones’ are now the largest religious cohort in the U.S. (28%). They are more prevalent among American adults ...

Religious dogma clashed with early science, but fossils and discoveries reshaped humanity’s understanding of Earth’s history.

Scientists have made an exciting discovery—a 69-million-year-old fossil found in Antarctica is the oldest known modern bird.

What would have happened if, 65 million years ago, a meteor had not struck the Earth, contributing to the extinction of the ...

What if 65 million years ago a meteor had not struck Earth, contributing to the extinction of the dinosaurs? In 1982, ...

A newly classified Paranthropus species, P. capensis, has been identified from a 1.4 million-year-old jawbone.

A new study in Nature describing a fossil of a nearly complete and intact bird skull from Antarctica is shedding light on the early evolution of ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

Diamonds, born from carbon under immense pressure deep within the Earth, have captivated civilizations for millennia.

A 69 million-year-old skull fossil discovered in Antarctica is an ancient relative of geese and ducks, making it the oldest ...

In a study published in January, researchers confirmed the preservation of original organic molecules in Mesozoic dinosaur ...

A new study in Nature describing a fossil of a nearly complete and intact bird skull from Antarctica is shedding light on the ...