When pilot Kenneth Arnold took off from Chehalis, Washington, in his single-engine airplane one afternoon in June 1947, he was looking for a lost military aircraft that had crashed. But what he ...

In a discovery that is delighting Millennials around the world, two new fossils discovered in England have been given very ...

Archaeological finds off the coast of Java, Indonesia, provide insight into the world of Homo erectus, 140,000 years ago.

Researchers have discovered an ancient moth-like sea predator in a treasure trove of museum fossils in Canada. The half-a-billion-year-old creature, Mosura fentoni, reveals that Cambrian arthropods ...

The emergence of four-legged animals known as tetrapods was a key step in the evolution of many species today - including ...

Fossilized claw tracks discovered in Australia show that the animal group that includes reptiles, mammals and birds formed ...

Archaeopteryx is the fossil that clearly demonstrated Darwin's views. It's the oldest known fossil bird, and it helps show that all birds -- including the ones alive today -- emerged from dinosaurs.

In 2011, the Cincinnati region recorded 13.52 inches of rain. The wettest since then was April 2014, which saw 6.66 inches of ...