Stars are the original nuclear fusion reactors. As it evolves, a star continuously fuses hydrogen, helium, and—if it becomes big enough—heavier elements, releasing the energy created into space as ...

A sweeping new geoarchaeological study has revealed how Egypt’s famed Karnak Temple complex rose from an island amid Nile floods to become one of the ancient world’s most enduring sacred centers. By ...

A fossil mosasaur skull and partial skeleton excavated from Angola’s costal cliffs. Credit Hillsman S. Jackson, Southern Methodist University. The story of prehistoric ocean life that emerged in the ...

For the more than 242 million years that lizards and snakes appear in the fossil record, they show up mostly as pieces of lizard jaws and snake vertebrae. Exactly why these parts survive as fossils ...

The global fossil record of squamates, which includes lizards, mosasaurs, snakes, and amphisbaenians (A) is overwhelmingly incomplete, with most fossil species containing less than 20% of the totality ...

Over the past 18 years, the Edelman Fossil Park and Museum in New Jersey has yielded over 100,000 fossils belonging to more than 100 species. That’s a pretty remarkable fossil hotspot–especially ...

Over the past 18 years, the Edelman Fossil Park and Museum in New Jersey has yielded over 100,000 fossils belonging to more than 100 species. That’s a pretty remarkable fossil hotspot–especially ...

Cinematographer Jacques Jouffret photographed “American Primeval” to reflect its sparse 1857 Utah environment, as a mother (Betty Gilpin) and son (Preston Mota) travel across untamed lands to reunite ...

As Henry W. Longfellow said, "This is the forest primeval." Those words have stuck with me since I memorized part of "Evangeline" in ninth grade, but they’ve rung truer since I first paddled through ...

Co-created by 'American Primeval' scribe Mark L. Smith, this six-episode thriller traces a murder investigation in the famous national park. By Daniel Fienberg Chief Television Critic In the premiere ...

‘Concussion’ helmer Peter Landesman is directing the indie based on a real-life Texas prison uprising, with Kevin Sheridan penning the screenplay. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief Taylor Kitsch is ...

Perhaps the most cynical part of the “Jurassic World” films is the fact that genetics companies pushed themselves to create entirely new species of dinosaurs, simply because, once they became a hot ...