As the fossil-fuel divestment movement continues to grow, more and more people and institutions are looking for cleaner ways to invest their money. That means demand is poised to grow for low-cost ...

In 1978, researchers in Laetoli, Tanzania, found an 88-foot-long trail of preserved footprints. The 3.6 million-year-old imprints included 70 impressions from two ape-like early human ancestors, ...

Researchers studying a trail of fossilized footprints on a remote New Mexico salt flat have determined the tracks tell the story of a group of Ice Age hunters stalking a giant sloth. Park naturalist ...

Researchers studying tracks fossilized in Cretaceous-era lakeshore mud in what is now South Korea argue this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that the dinosaur footprints are ...

Some ancient tracks in Capitol Reef National Park were “impressed into a muddy matrix and later filled in with a fine sand,” the National Park Service says. It's not clear if these were the stolen ...

It’s a decidedly 21st-century technology, but now 3D printing is being harnessed to highlight mesmerizing relics from the ancient past. A new web database out of the UK is offering users anywhere in ...

SERGIO AZEVEDO was prospecting at an old railroad site in São Paulo state, Brazil, when he discovered the fossilised bones of an unknown animal. “Many times when you find a fossil in the field it’s ...

A series of fossilized footprints linked to a Triassic-era reptile have been stolen from a Utah national park. The incident is being investigated as an act of vandalism and the theft of “irreplaceable ...