Gravely Serious Facts About Tombs and Crypts: 25 Most Bizarre Fossils Ever Discovered: Heres the thing about fossils: theyre not just old bones collecting dust in museums. Theyre little time capsules, ...

Rats, by and large, aren't terribly popular animals. But while you don't want an infestation of common black rats living in your house, their distant cousins in the Philippines are downright cuddly.

Rick Crosslin, also known as the Science Guy, shared fascinating facts about fossils found right here in Indiana. According to Rick, Indiana has a rich history of ancient life, and fossils can be ...

Microscopic tardigrades—plump, eight-legged arthropod relatives—are nearly indestructible, and their durability superpower may have helped them weather the deadliest mass extinction in Earth’s history ...

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 ...

Fossils are windows to the past. Whether they formed from the bones of ferocious dinosaurs or their less-impressive waste products, they provide essential information about the world millions of years ...

This period of time was when dinosaurs first evolved. The continents we live on today were part of one land mass that scientists call Pangaea. The climate was hot and dinosaurs flourished after the ...

Scientists have discovered the fossils of three new species of giant cloud rats that lived alongside ancient humans in the Philippines. These fluffy, squirrel-like creatures may have been a source of ...