Earth's worst mass extinctions occurred when environmental change outpaced evolution, revealing a pattern spanning 450 ...

The origin of turtles has puzzled scientists. A new study provides more evidence that these shelled reptiles share a common ...

In the fifth episode of our Stones & Bones video series, National Geographic digital editor Nicholas St. Fleur explores how a ...

Life on Earth took a long evolutionary journey that eventually created us, the purportedly intelligent species that dominates ...

Scientists thought angiosperms didn’t use animals to spread seeds until after the Age of Dinosaurs. Fossilized fruits from ...

A dramatic protest at the Travelers Championship forced PGA Tour officials into an unprecedented decision that reshaped one ...

All modern humans may descend from a small group of people who survived a catastrophic event just over 70,000 years ago.

New research from the University of St. Andrews has shown that higher extinction risk is associated with a higher frequency of decreasing local prevalence of species, in an analysis of one of the most ...

History is filled with moments so extraordinarily and fascinating that it can be hard to believe that they even happened. Luckily, we have historical sources that can reveal truths that are stranger ...

Fossils from the Jose Creek Formation in New Mexico reveal that angiosperms (flowering plants) had built dense, fruit-bearing ...