A meme about the transitional fossil Tiktaalik argues that although we did come out of the sea, we aren’t doing just fine. By Sabrina Imbler It may not be the worst of times, but it is certainly ...

Workmen blasting bedrock while building a school near the city of Ganzhou unearthed a beautifully preserved fossil of the roughly 6.5-foot-long dinosaur, nicknamed the "Mud Dragon," still in that ...

Half-naked climate activists showered themselves with mud in Rome, Italy, to protest the use of fossil fuels and to remind people of the dangers of flooding. Last week, severe flooding led to ...

Over time, layers of mud stone were folded and uplifted by tectonic forces, exposing the arrays of fossil tracks we see today.” Using high-definition cameras and GPS coordinates, it took Nyborg ...

mired in mud with its limbs and head outstretched, struggling to escape. “This new dinosaur is one of the most beautiful, but saddest, fossils I’ve ever seen,” Steve Brusatte, of the ...