Eleven-year-old Touren Pope was hunting for rocks in southwest Wyoming when he came across the fossil of a soft-shelled ...

Finding seashell fossils far from any coastline raises obvious questions. The answer takes us back millions of years, when entire regions sat beneath ancient oceans. Through tectonic uplift and ...

At the dawn of history, where God created the heavens and earth, a vapor canopy was above the whole earth which created a tropical climate. Let’s look at some evidence that supports this claim. Coral ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com. Where do seashells come from? – Ivy, age 5, ...

An extraordinary 512-million-year-old fossil site has been discovered in southern China, preserving in vivid detail almost an entire ecosystem from a time shortly after Earth’s first mass extinction ...

Three local authority pension funds have joined an international coalition of investors to file fossil fuel-related shareholder resolutions at oil giants BP and Shell. Lothian Pension Fund, Falkirk ...

Before trees came along some 400 million years ago, our planet’s landscape was dominated by enigmatic, spire-shaped life-forms that towered more than 25 feet above the ground. Their trunklike fossils ...

Where did our species first emerge? Fossils discovered in Morocco dating back more than 773,000 years bolster the theory that Homo sapiens originally appeared in Africa, scientists said in a study ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco from a little-understood period of human evolution may help scientists resolve a long-standing mystery: Who came before us? Three jawbones, including one from a child, ...

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in Africa’s fossil record of human origins. By Franz Lidz Researchers on Wednesday ...

A trio of jawbones, a leg bone, and a handful of vertebrae and teeth found in Morocco may represent one of the last common ancestors of Neandertals, Denisovans and modern humans. “We can say that the ...

The tradition of quarterbacks buying gifts for their offensive linemen has long been practiced in the NFL, but Joe Burrow might be in a league of his own when it comes to playing Santa. As ESPN’s Ben ...