Scientific American talked with Gabbott and Zalasiewicz, authors of the book Discarded: How Technofossils Will Be Our ...

Most people think of crocodilians as living fossils—stubbornly unchanged, prehistoric relics that have ruled the world's swampiest corners for millions of years. But their evolutionary history tells a ...

A routine fossil-hunting trip turned into a groundbreaking discovery for a pair of researchers when they stumbled upon a rare ...

For years, a mysterious fossil specimen defied categorization, until one paleontologist made a surprising discovery.

For centuries scientists have imagined megalodon as an oversized great white shark. But would another shark provide a better ...

California’s economic, academic, media, and political establishment still embraces the notion of the state’s inevitable ...

Others see California as deserving and capable of nationhood, a topic that has resurfaced with Trump’s presidency as it ...

These subtle fossil clues reveal that mammals may have been responding to a changing world, especially the spread of flowering plants that transformed habitats on the ground. Surprisingly, this ...

A new carbon-neutral museum invites visitors to dig for fossils beneath a strategically sited mass-timber-and-concrete structure.

While humans who are buried have "taken the first step to fossilisation," scientists predicting which objects from our technological civilization will survive millions of years as fossils identify ...

Have we reached what some have called a “post-constitutional order,” when personal loyalty to a politician replaces respect for and loyalty to the law?" Guests including Mark Zuckerberg ...