The Chocolate Hills are 1,776 mounds on Bohol Island in the Philippines where grassy cover turns brown during the dry season.

Scientists studying the fossil remains of giant prehistoric kangaroos have found that even animals weighing more than 200kg may not have been too big to bounce, overturning long-held assumptions about ...

Discover how massive fossils of mammoths and dwarf elephants inspired Greek myths of giants and cyclopes. This video examines the fascinating connections between prehistoric bones and the imaginative ...

A treasure trove of Cambrian fossils has been discovered in southern China, providing a window on marine life shortly after ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A life reconstruction of Prototaxites taiti growing in the 407-million-year-old Rhynie chert ecosystem. (CREDIT: M. Humpage, ...

Before trees came along some 400 million years ago, our planet’s landscape was dominated by enigmatic, spire-shaped life-forms that towered more than 25 feet above the ground. Their trunklike fossils ...

A group of researchers has estimated how long it took tyrannosaurus rex to reach its full size — and the time period is significantly longer than scientists previously believed. The dinosaur is ...

The president’s embrace of fossil fuels and withdrawal from the global fight against climate change will make it hard to keep warming at safe levels, scientists said. By Lisa Friedman By pulling the ...

We cannot know what future generations will judge to have been President Donald Trump’s most destructive policy, but it is likely that it will be his actions that accelerate climate change. In spite ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A state of emergency was declared in parts of New Zealand’s North Island on Wednesday, January 22, after heavy rain triggered ...