Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park continues to offer important glimpses of prehistoric life in Nebraska.

Paleontologist Ken Lacovara never expected to find critical fossil data in a New Jersey suburb—let alone info about the ...

An inexperienced fossil hunter travels into the Texas desert with a paleontologist to search for evidence of dinosaurs. The ...

A Florida river had remained flooded for a long time, keeping many of its fossil-rich banks underwater. Once the level ...

DNR fisheries technicians happened to be near the area where the stranding was reported, and were quick to help.

Scientists uncovered DNA from two mysterious human ancestors hidden in modern genomes, revealing new clues about our ...

State paleontologists guide participants through a Dickinson-area dig, where fossils of ancient mammals and other animals ...

Scientists are searching some of Earth’s oldest rocks for tiny fossils that could reveal how simple microbial life made the extraordinary leap toward plants, animals, and other complex organisms.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Anderson Taylor, who has become the Guinness World Record holder for youngest male museum curator. He opened a natural history museum at age 9. : [POST-BROADCAST ...

Local officials are seeking answers in the death of a Black woman found hanging from a tree behind a vacant house in Jackson, Mississippi, earlier this week as her family demands justice. Tasia ...

In the heart of urban Los Angeles lie the La Brea Tar Pits, a group of natural asphalt seeps made famous by the millions of ice age fossils preserved within the bubbling, dark pools of goo.