Highly detailed fossils are typically found in shale or other fine-grained sedimentary rocks. These ones? They’re made of ...

Instantly recognizable by their spiral shells, these ancient predators were relatives of modern squid and octopuses. Because ...

In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his ...

Dated to about 230 million years, jaguensis is among the earliest known dinosaurs and promises new insight into the rise of the giant sauropods.

What if cropdusting could cool down the climate? What about rockdusting? Turns out sprinkling rock dust on fields may enhance ...

Microsoft and Terradot are turning Brazil’s basalt-rich farmlands into a living lab for scalable, durable carbon removal.

A strange Cambrian fossil named Salterella may hold the key to understanding how early animals first built skeletons. As the season of skeletons approaches, it’s worth remembering that the real “age ...

Newly discovered African fossils lend a hand to suspicions that an ancient hominid outside our own genus, Homo, made and used stone and bone tools.

A new climbing reptile from the Jurassic period, Sphenodraco scandentis, has been discovered following the reconstruction of ...