Despite seeming like a relatively stable place, the Earth's surface has changed dramatically over the past 4.6 billion years. Mountains have been built and eroded, continents and oceans have moved ...

National Geographic's Wonder Lessons will teach you how to navigate the stars, spot cloud types, recognize common trees, and ...

Sixty-five miles southwest of Chicago, a small hill that looks like a prop from an Indiana Jones movie breaks up the flat, monotone landscape. Consisting of shale, sandstone and rocks from an old coal ...

Exploring the Ancient World The Earth is incredibly ancient, with millions of years of history. While we have never witnessed ...

Fossils in China reveal early life that predates animals and show that ancient ecosystems were more complex than previously ...

The unlucky fossil bird, preserved with over 800 tiny rocks in its throat (visible as the gray mass next to the left of its neck bones). A fossil only tells part of the story. When an animal’s body is ...

New dinosaur fossils were discovered at the Dinosaur National Monument, leading to the first excavation there in more than 100 years, officials revealed Friday. The National Park Service said that ...

The artwork suggests that the San people of South Africa have an Indigenous knowledge of paleontology that predated Western approaches to the field. By Jack Tamisiea On a sandstone cliff in South ...

When paleontologists picture the earliest animals, they tend to imagine something with at least a rudimentary skeleton: a ...

Washington is full of earthly treasures. Local rockhound experts share their tips for how to find and collect agates, quartz ...