During the Triassic period nearly 250 million years ago, a small reptile scurried after insects in the canopy of a lush ...

The ice cores could offer clues about a period known as the Mid-Pleistocene Transition that has long puzzled scientists ...

Some fossils are truly breathtaking. While paleontologists are used to finding scraps of bones, broken teeth and hazy footprints in ancient rock, every now and then, someone finds a fossil that allows ...

Supporting sustainability and local economies, these out-of-the-way structures known as masserie are offering a new type of ...

Scientists have long speculated that Betelgeuse, one of the brightest stars in the night sky, is not alone. Now, thanks to ...

With the capital's reservoirs approaching historic lows, officials are turning to ancient engineering to conserve potable ...

A trio of the 17th-century Dutch painter’s works featuring women writing and receiving letters is on display at the recently ...

A visitor recently ate the banana from Maurizio Cattelan's "Comedian," which was on view at the Center Pompidou-Metz. The ...

The celestial body's unusual orbit “implies that something extraordinary occurred" in the early days of the solar system—and ...

In New York’s only federal wilderness area, the loss of a key predator has led to the rise of a new one—with dire ...

But T. rex was also the last of its meat-tearing family. The earliest tyrannosaurs evolved about 166 million years ago. In ...

In the 20th century, actresses and royals alike donned delicate dresses woven with spun-glass threads. More recently, ...