Sturgeon were around when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. They are among the oldest living species of fish, earning the moniker ...

You don't have to travel far to see some of the world's most stunning natural wonders. From shimmering turquoise lakes to ...

Ten million years ago, a shark ruled the seas. Today, I’m sifting through creek mud in crocs trying to find its teeth. The ...

Argentinian scientists have found fossilized bones of one of the world's oldest dinosaur species in the Andes Mountains, the ...

Some sixty years after her grandmother discovered “Nutcracker Man,” Louise Leakey unearths his long-lost hand—reviving a ...

In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his ...

For the first time, scientists have dated dinosaur eggs that lay buried in rock for millions of years, using a groundbreaking new ‘atomic clock for fossils’ method. During the Cretaceous period, Earth ...

The fossil cave system in Richards Spur, Oklahoma, is believed to be home to some of the oldest stalagmites in the world.