President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America drew strong reactions and voiced resistance by several groups, including the Seneca Nation.

The Trump administration is ratcheting up its fight to get more crude flowing through California and reverse the state’s ...

Much of what we think about Megalodon comes from its giant teeth. However, scientists might have made an incorrect assumption about the species many years ago.

The fossil fuel industry isn’t just raking in record profits amid the war with Iran. In California, it’s also spending big to oppose climate and worker-safety legislation. According to analyses by a ...

While finding a megalodon tooth on a U.S. coastline isn't exceptionally rare, the prehistoric shark fossil that washed ashore in Sea Isle City is a "human mystery," according to Edelman Fossil Park ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In terms of the sheer scope of heat and extreme weather, 2026 has been a year of ...

The extinct megatooth shark, Otodus megalodon, is known mainly from teeth, with vertebrae and scales making up a much smaller part of its fossil record. That makes a set of unusually large vertebrae ...

Scientists have identified exceptionally rare soft tissue preserved in a 450-million-year-old crinoid fossil, more than 200 million years older than the first dinosaurs. Its delicate tube feet offer a ...

The Bowers family was enjoying an otherwise normal vacation in Sea Isle City, New Jersey, when they stumbled upon an unexpected souvenir: a fossilized megalodon tooth dating back millions of years.

Megalodon was already believed to reach roughly 50 to 65 feet in length, making it the largest shark ever known. But research involving a long-lost fossil has pushed estimates even further, suggesting ...

If you saw last year’s viral hatching T-rex toy and thought the obvious move was to make it wetter and creepier, you might have a promising career in toy design. Spin Master, the company behind the ...

This family’s souvenir blows the tchotchkes kids bring home from summer vacation out of the water. A family from Pennsylvania went to the Jersey Shore and came home with a prehistoric artifact - a ...