Trove of fossils discovered in Canada sheds light on "when life first became large, complex and unmistakenly animal." ...

An artist’s impression of the toothed platypus that swam with dolphins 25 million years ago – credit, Gen Conway, Flinders University via SWNS Everyone knows that the platypus is the world’s strangest ...

New research published today in Science Advances reveals that the largest expansion of coral reefs in the past 100 million years happened about 20 to 10 million years ago, between Australia and ...

Millions of years ago, the land you’re currently sitting on was located at a completely different latitude. Your backyard crossed thousands of miles to reach its particular point on the planet, and ...

Location of The Netherlands (pink) in Pangaea, 258 million years ago. Brown: Current continental crust above water, Light brown: Thinned and reconstructed continental crust, mostly submerged.Utrecht ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

An international team of Earth scientists led by Utrecht professor Douwe van Hinsbergen has developed an online tool that allows you to see, for any given location on Earth, what latitude it occupied ...

A rare and powerful weather system is impacting a large portion of the population, raising concerns about its scale and intensity. What begins as a regional event quickly expands across multiple areas ...

Photographs from the first days of the Chernobyl disaster and of the aftermath years later show the response, the evacuation and the long-term consequences of the world’s worst nuclear accident. In ...

Giant, fearsome octopuses may have once ruled the ancient seas, according to new research that flips the script on their evolutionary past. By uncovering exquisitely preserved fossil jaws hidden ...

She has been a one-woman money machine for the music industry, having sold more than 120 million records. A detailed report into Adele’s popularity – called Adelytics – a decade ago by the Kogod ...

The top predator prowling the seas during the age of the dinosaurs 100 million years ago may have been the octopus. New analyses of fossilized jaws reveal that massive, kraken-like octopuses once ...