On a dry lakebed in southern New Mexico, a set of ghostly footprints has forced archaeologists to redraw the map of the first ...

New research shows fossil skin can reveal color patterns in young Diplodocus, changing old ideas about sauropod appearance.

By studying the natural world, scientists find blueprints for innovations that can improve human lives—in the genes of a ...

Will people continue to hike and bike the Arizona Trail? Extreme weather and land use challenges may test the limits.

Paleontologists have discovered the first known fossilized bee nests built inside ancient bones, uncovered in a cave that ...

Scientists have discovered an enormous species of duck-billed dinosaur that lived in what is now New Mexico about 75 million ...

Radioactive minerals in eggshells can help scientists pinpoint a fossil’s age with stunning accuracy. Scientists excavate dinosaur egg nests in Mongolia's Eastern Gobi Basin. National Geographic ...

Zion National Park is known for iconic species, such as bighorn sheep and the endangered California condor. But, once upon a ...

You have probably seen the images of the surface of Mars, beamed back by NASA's rovers. What if there were a time machine ...

The iconic Homo erectus fossil was welcomed home with a repatriation ceremony and a new museum exhibit in Jakarta.