Parasites have roamed the Earth for a long time. They were here before the dinosaurs: The oldest fossils are more than 500 million years old. Today on the show, Regina G. Barber speaks with ...

Australia’s First Peoples may or may not have hunted the continent’s megafauna to extinction, but they definitely collected ...

The Waukesha Biota was the center for massive paleontological information, and new revelations found the origin of a ...

Controversial evidence hints that complex life might have emerged hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously ...

For a change, this week’s column does not feature food. Instead, I couldn’t resist writing about National Fossil Day, which is celebrated on the Wednesday of the second full week of October. This year ...

Think you’re a Pennsylvania expert? State symbols highlight the unique characteristics of each state in the country. They’re chosen as a way to represent the culture, history and ...

One of the planet’s most successful arthropods, trilobites, abounded in the oceans from about 520 million to 250 million years ago. Trilobite exoskeletons are found on all seven continents and are a ...

Did you know that Colorado was once covered by an ocean millions of years ago? Or that there are fossils of dinosaurs and tropical forests preserved right here in Aurora? Come learn about ancient ...

The Wisconsin site is famed for its preservation of ancient soft-bodied organisms like leeches—leading Kenneth Gass, a paleontologist at the Milwaukee Public Museum not involved with the study, to ...

Visitors can explore 3D renderings of stolen artworks, historical artifacts, rare books and more in UNESCO's new digital ...

Image: Jose-Luis Olivares, MIT. Long before dinosaurs, trilobites, or even jellyfish swam the seas, Earth’s oceans were filled with creatures that looked like squishy tubes or blobs. They had no bones ...

When the remains of prehistoric creatures were discovered in Europe and the United States, it opened up a vociferous debate on the nature of time and the purpose of science. A lithograph illustrating ...