Across China’s high, windswept plateaus, rows of solar panels are subtly reshaping the desert floor—cooling soil, slowing evaporation, and nudging hardy plants back into places ...

For bird enthusiasts, Beaver Lake State Park is the equivalent of front-row seats at nature’s greatest concert. The park sits along a major migratory flyway, turning ordinary days into extraordinary ...

An 8,000-year-old prehistoric site in Jiangsu, China, has revealed remarkable new insights into early human life near the ...

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Middle East's largest natural history museum celebrates 13.8 billion years of science, discovery, and wonder, with a special ...

The iconic, armored, 14-foot-long Dunkleosteus was something of an "evolutionary oddball,” a new study has revealed.

Small clues can change big stories. This exquisitely preserved Miocene spider from Australia sharpens our view of ancient ...

CLEVELAND—About 360 million years ago, the shallow sea above present-day Cleveland was home to a fearsome apex predator: Dunkleosteus terrelli. This ...

A new study that examines how kissing evolved suggests that ape ancestors and early humans like Neanderthals probably locked lips with their friends and sexual partners. The behavior may date back 21 ...

Something that has been hidden for 6,000 years has been uncovered. V-shaped stone ruins have been revealed by satellite ...

A clay figurine about 12,000 years old that was unearthed at the site of a prehistoric village overlooking the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel depicts a woman and a goose in what may be one of the ...