Every spring horseshoe crabs come to South Carolina beaches to reproduce. A volunteer initiative with the SCDNR helps researchers better understand the species.

A remarkably preserved stegosaur skull is reshaping what scientists know about plated dinosaurs and their evolution across ...

A prevailing theory in the scientific community, known as the "RNA World" hypothesis, suggests that life may have originally ...

At roughly 22 feet long and tipping the scales near 11,000 pounds, Lokiceratops is the heavyweight champion of North American ...

Around 66 million years ago, a six-mile-wide asteroid hit Earth, triggering the extinction of three-quarters of all living ...

The Weis Earth Science Museum is open until May 31 in its current location. It's set to move to the History Museum at the ...

Palynologists who study tiny pollen fossils share 4 stories found in grains that fell hundreds to millions of years ago.

Chicago, a small hill that looks like a prop from an Indiana Jones contains many of the world’s best-preserved, most diverse ...

It can tell us about vegetation, climate and even human activity through time. Pollen grains are far more than allergens — ...

A rare fossil discovery in Antarctica has upended scientific understanding of ancient marine reptiles. Buried beneath 68 million years of sediment, a soft-shelled egg as big as a football has emerged ...

Step back in time to when dinosaurs roamed the earth at the Flint Hills Discovery Center. The latest exhibit, “Tiny Titans: ...

Alligators are often seen as modern swamp predators, but science tells us they’re ancient creatures that walked the Earth long before dinosaurs. With fossil records dating back over 200 million years, ...