Long before T. rex, the Earth was dominated by super-carnivores stranger and more terrifying than anything dreamed up by ...

As it turns out, they weren’t hard to find. “The rocks we found were outcropping,” says Goulart, now 55. After periods of drought, rain had washed away sediments and exposed the fossils.

Stanford study shows ocean biomass has risen over 540 million years, linking biodiversity to long-term ecosystem health.

The Permian basin has been the chief growth driver for U.S. shale oil production. The most prolific shale basin in North America has been the focus of attention for industry players and traders alike.

I am hiking along the Metacomet Ridge in Greenfield, Massachusetts – a rather steep basaltic structure, modestly less than five hundred feet high and topped by a stately brick tower constructed in ...

Biomass reveals the real impact and energy flow of life in an ecosystem, like knowing not just the cast of a play, but who ...

A new fossil discovery suggests that reptiles lived together 20 million years earlier than previously thought.

Heavy rains in Archer County revealed a rare Eryops megacephalus skull, an ancient amphibian with a mouth full of curved ...

By using high-resolution fossil data and advanced computing tools, the scientists revealed that over 300 million years ago, ...

One of these predators was Inostrancevia, a terrifying saber-toothed creature described as a proto-mammal that's older than the dinosaurs. For years, paleontologists believed it l ...