The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday weakened limits on mercury and other toxic emissions from coal-fired power ...

One of the most famous formations in Ohio Caverns is called the Crystal King, and it’s easy to see why it earned such a regal title. This massive stalactite is one of the largest and most perfectly ...

Life on Earth started in the oceans. Sometime around 475 million years ago, plants began making their way from the water onto ...

A 70 million-year-old nest of protoceratops andrewsi dinoasaurs were discovered in 2011 with evidence that 15 baby dinosaurs had once been inside it. They were found in Mongolia, where it was believed ...

In a quiet corner of Columbus, an unusual discovery has turned heads: perfectly spherical rocks are emerging from backyard gardens and creek beds. These strange objects are millions of years old, ...

Just over half a billion years ago, Earth was rocked by a global mass extinction event, a dramatic interruption of the Cambrian explosion of life on Earth. What happened next, in the direct aftermath ...

The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where preservation shouldn’t be possible. Scientists now think their survival in ...

A treasure trove of exceptional fossils from 512 million years ago—including 90 species previously unknown to science—is shining light on a mysterious page in the history of life. Paleontologists ...

Cambrian Period fossils date to about 512 million years ago Fossils show invertebrates of various shapes and sizes They reveal animal legs, gills, guts, eyes and even nerves Jan 28 (Reuters) - ...

An extraordinary 512-million-year-old fossil site has been discovered in southern China, preserving in vivid detail almost an entire ecosystem from a time shortly after Earth’s first mass extinction ...

I write this column not as a historian or a policy expert, but as someone who lives in a region that has been asked, again and again, to give more than it can. Each morning, when I look out from the ...