Archaeologists have found a prehistoric human skeleton deep inside a flooded cave system on Mexico’s Caribbean coast.

Although astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets, the number of confirmed exomoons—and exorings—is still zero. But ...

Tiny insects trapped in amber could tell us a great deal about their roles in past ecosystems: pollinators, parasites, predators, and prey. But how many of the insects preserved alongside each other ...

Gypsum is a soft, translucent sulfate mineral that allows just enough light to penetrate for photosynthetic organisms to survive inside, while also protecting them from being desiccated or exposed to ...

Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...

Remember 3I/ATLAS? Yes, the interstellar comet that made plenty of headlines in 2025 is still romping through our solar ...

Researchers have found a well-preserved and nearly complete skeleton of one of the world's smallest-known dinosaurs, named Alnashetri cerropoliciensis, in Argentina’s Patagonia region, where massive ...

A ‘smiling’ fossil has gone viral after being discovered by a tourist on Holy Island. Christine Clark visits Northumberland ...

Archaeologists raced to document the semi-fossilized tracks in eastern Scotland. They were likely made by humans, deer and ...

Forgotten fossils from the Kimberley show how marine amphibians rebounded and spread across the globe after the end-Permian mass extinction.

A newly identified ichthyosaur from the UK’s Jurassic Coast is rewriting part of the prehistoric playbook. Nicknamed the “Sword Dragon of Dorset,” the three-meter-long marine reptile lived during a ...

Crystal Grottoes holds the distinction of being Maryland’s only commercially operated show cave, which is a fancy way of saying it’s the only cave in the state where you can safely explore without ...