A North Dakota jury ordered the environmental group to pay pipeline company Energy Transfer nearly $700 million in damages in the yearslong pipeline lawsuit. Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty ...

A bizarre ancient organism previously thought to be a giant fungus may actually belong to an undiscovered branch of the tree of life that mysteriously went extinct. Prototaxites, which lived ...

While researchers knew the 1.5-meter-long (about 5-foot-long) slab was around 200 million years old and home to an abundance of visible dinosaur footprints, the significance of the fossil remained ...

Mar. 6, 2025 — Researchers have discovered the world's oldest known meteorite impact crater, which could significantly redefine our understanding of the origins of life and how our planet was ...

Scientists used computer modelling to determine the asteroid formed when a larger space rock broke apart. "Based on ground-based observations, Donaldjohanson appears to be a peculiar object," said ...