How giant sauropods got their strange skulls
It was always going to be a big lift, piecing together the story of how sauropods — the long-necked, lumbering giants of the dinosaur...
Energy unleashed by submarine volcanoes could power a continent
Volcanic eruptions deep in our oceans are capable of extremely powerful releases of energy, at a rate high enough to power the whole of...
Scientists release new all-sky map of the outermost region of our galaxy
Astronomers using data from NASA and the ESA (European Space Agency) telescopes have released a new all-sky map of the outermost region of our...
Earth’s biggest mass extinction took ten times longer on land than in the water,...
Our planet's worst mass extinction event happened 252 million years ago when massive volcanic eruptions caused catastrophic climate change.
The vast majority of animal species...
How many Tyrannosaurus rexes roamed North America? Billions!
How many Tyrannosaurus rexes roamed North America during the Cretaceous period?
That’s a question Charles Marshall pestered his paleontologist colleagues with for years until he...
Scientists discover 3500-year-old honeypot in Africa
Honey is humankind's oldest sweetener - and for thousands of years it was also the only one.
Indirect clues about the significance of bees and...
Scientists find five double star systems potentially suitable for life
Almost half a century ago the creators of Star Wars imagined a life-sustaining planet, Tatooine, orbiting a pair of stars.
Now, 44 years later, scientists...
NASA satellites detect signs of volcanic unrest years before eruptions
New method could help predict volcanic eruptions much earlier.
Although there are telltale signs that a volcano is likely to erupt in the near future...
U.S. East Coast sea level rise in 20th century fastest in 2,000 years
The rate of sea level rise in the 20th century along much of the U.S. Atlantic coast was the fastest in 2,000 years, and...
Alien raindrops surprisingly like rain on Earth, shows study
Raindrops on other planets and moons are close to the size of raindrops on Earth despite having different chemical compositions and falling through vastly...