New Mexico's carved hoodoos, expansive badlands, and rising mesas feel like they belong in another world, far away from the ...

A fossil hunt in Kentucky turned into a race against the rain as the group searched a road cut full of ancient marine fossils. The strongest moment came when he flipped over a brachiopod fossil and ...

At first, they looked like muddy chunks of ancient shell. But these 20-million-year-old fossil oysters had been slowly ...

Detainees at an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades, known as "Alligator Alcatraz," have been transferred ...

Good things come in small packages, and that has never been truer than at Indiana's smallest state park, a treasure trove of ...

Using the Keck Observatory, astronomers measured the spins of dozens of giant planets and brown dwarfs orbiting distant stars ...

These goblin sharks are said to be 'ridiculously horrendous' and have faces that not even a 'mother would love'. Ouch.

A Virginia Tech-led team of international scientists has solved one of the last major mysteries in millipede evolution, ...

A Kansas boy searching for fossils during a geology club field trip stumbled onto something far bigger than expected: the remains of a 15-foot-long marine reptile that swam an ancient sea 85 million ...

Scientists have confirmed the world's largest scorpion ever discovered. The giant predator, Praearcturus gigas, lived 415 ...

Acclaimed director Steven Spielberg discusses the history of alien movies ahead of the release of his new film, Disclosure ...