High school teacher Ashley Allen’s discovery of 300-million-year-old fossils in an Alabama coal mine turned him into a modern-day Indiana Jones, rewriting prehistoric history!

More than 300 million years ago, during the Carboniferous Period, much of northern Illinois outside Chicago—including what is ...

In a twist worthy of a detective novel, a long-misidentified fossil at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) has ...

Earth has experienced both hot and cold periods over time, though warm times have been more common. That’s true of the last 485 million years, as seen in this timeline reported in 2024. Our genus, ...

A prehistoric carbon spike turned oceans deadly and wiped out marine life. Scientists say today’s CO₂ rise could cause the ...

Scientists found 12,000-year-old glacier ice in the Alps, revealing new details about Europe’s climate history and human ...

An ancient ice core from Mont Blanc has revealed 12,000 years of climate and human history, making it the oldest Alpine ice ...