Laura Geggel

An ancient whale's flipper bone has bite marks on it, revealing that a shark tore into it about 15 million years ago.

Antarctica was warmer during the late Cretaceous period, a time when wildfire blazed through the region.

A team mapping the seafloor in the northern Red Sea unexpectedly spotted a purpleback flying squid near a previously unknown shipwreck.

The earliest evidence that dinosaurs lived in herds dates to a 192 million-year-old Jurassic graveyard in Argentina.

Thousands of earthquakes tipped off geologists that there might be a new submarine volcano.

October's full moon and the peak of the Orionid meteor shower are happening on the same day this week.

Archaeologists have found 400 newfound tombs dating to Roman times in a giant necropolis in Turkey.

Glacier archaeologists in Norway have found the second of a pair of 1,300-year-old skis dating to the Iron Age.

It's a mystery why a beluga, normally an Arctic and subarctic whale, is swimming near Seattle.

A newly described dinosaur species hailed as "chief dragon" was actually the size of a chicken, and may have been a dwarf.

Following a monsoon, hundreds of 'dinosaur shrimp' emerged for a few weeks in the Arizona desert.

An excavation at a Roman Empire-era amphitheater in Pergamon Turkey reveals that elites sat in 'box seats.'

Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island is erupting, spewing lava and sending Pele's hair into the sky.

Archaeologists have found the head of a warrior decapitated by the Ottomans in the 14th century.

Amateur freedivers found a giant stash of gold coins dating to the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

A Danish man with a metal detector found a sixth-century hoard buried by a chieftain.

Here's how to see September's full Harvest Moon.

Hours of survey work have added an additional 8 miles to the passageways at Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky

An extraordinary 120-million-year-old fossil bird from China reveals that the animal had a sexy but vaguely impractical tail.

A Bronze Age burial was accidentally discovered in an English golf club.

Four chunks of amber containing Cretaceous-age spiders reveal that mothers cared for spiderlings.

A new facial reconstruction depicts a Neanderthal with a tumor above his right eyebrow.

Tyrannosaurs around the age of sexual maturity often bit each other's faces, likely to win prizes.

The discovery of a massive dinosaur jawbone dating to 90 million years ago reveals a previously unknown apex predator that prowled in what is now Uzbekistan.

The maimed and tortured remains of Atacama Desert mummies reveal that the region’s earliest farmers cultivated a climate of extreme violence.