Volunteers armed with chisels, brushes and protective goggles chip away at rock encasing the bones of a massive prehistoric ...

Proailurus, a fascinating feline from 30 million years ago, is recognized as the earliest true cat. This agile tree climber ...

Discover some of the sensational specimens found by Mary Anning that are now part of the collections we look after.

his isn’t the kind of furball you’d want sitting on your ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of 7,000-year-old fish traps in the mountains of southern Norway, indicating that ...

Many centuries before the advent of agriculture in Norway, ancient people transported fish into mountain lakes to create a ...

Robert Davis is an award-winning journalist and senior editor at RawStory. Before joining the team, he wrote for publications such as Forbes, Business Insider, Capital & Main, and The Colorado Sun, to ...

Earth is the only planet we know of with buoyant, silica-rich continents. But, despite decades of research, geologists still don’t agree on how they formed. “The continents started appearing around ...

Researchers have long known that the animals were introduced into the region's high-altitude bodies of water, but they ...

Earth has a dizzying diversity of insects, with beetles alone making up 25 percent of all named animal species. But a new analysis suggests even more variety than we thought: there are as many as 20 ...

In the 45°C heat of the midday April sun, I swing my sledgehammer into the terracotta-varnished lobes of pillow basalt overlooking a sparse, almost Martian landscape. Up close, the rock is freckled ...

A Chinese spacecraft on a mission to collect and return samples of a near-Earth asteroid beamed back its first image of its target. Called Kamo‘oalewa, the space rock loops by Earth, coming as close ...