For nearly 30 million years, a 2,000-pound beast known as the entelodont ruled a sweeping empire from Mongolia to what is now ...

Rosamond Purcell (b. 1942) is a Boston-based photographer and writer whose domains are the palimpsest melding of past, ...

And while people can argue endlessly about the cost and benefits of electric cars, nuclear reactors and windmills, surely most of us can agree that majestic forests of pine, maple, beech and spruce ...

In 1992, a paleontologist unearthed the fossil of a prehistoric bird called "Vegavis iaai" in Antarctica and hypothesized that it was an early relative of today's ducks and geese. However, because the ...

For the first time, scientists have completed an in-depth analysis of fossilized soft tissues from a plesiosaur ...

Flying and marine animals are relatively free to follow these shifting niches. Birds and butterflies are two examples. New ...