The cenotes of the Yucatán Peninsula have held this secret for millennia — and a cave diver just brought it to light.

Ancient fossils from South China reveal the earliest bony fishes and shed new light on how jaws, teeth, and key vertebrate features evolved before the major fish lineages diverged.

A new study reveals that a major cooling event 34 million years ago caused staggered marine extinctions, not a single global ...

Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants ...

The Minoan civilization flourished between roughly 2000 and 1500 B.C. on Crete and nearby islands. How did it come to an end?