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

Led by Scott Evans, assistant curator of invertebrate palaeontology at the American Museum of Natural History, it draws on ...

The oldest eukaryotes we've found lived exclusively on the seafloor and already used oxygen. The discovery overturns certain long-held assumptions about the group while corroborating others.

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown species of true bug that has claws. Amber from Myanmar’s Kachin region has ...

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 ...

The housing market for the uber-wealthy has reached a new stratosphere. Amid a flurry of $100 million and $200 million listings and sales, a California estate with ties to Qatari royals is hitting the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...