These ostrich eggshell beads were Facebook or Twitter’s likes in Stone Age
A clump of grass grows on an outcrop of shale 33,000 years ago.
An ostrich pecks at the grass, and atoms taken up from the...
Earth’s mantle, not its core, may have generated planet’s Early magnetic field
New research lends credence to an unorthodox retelling of the story of early Earth first proposed by a geophysicist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography...
What causes an ice age to end?
New University of Melbourne research has revealed that ice ages over the last million years ended when the tilt angle of the Earth's axis...
Antarctic subglacial lakes are cold, dark and full of secrets
More than half of the planet's fresh water is in Antarctica.
While most of it is frozen in the ice sheets, underneath the ice pools...
Early Earth may have been a ‘waterworld’ without any continent
Kevin Costner, eat your heart out.
New research shows that the early Earth, home to some of our planet's first lifeforms, may have been a...
Scientists discover why the oceans are so diverse
A new study in the journal Science has given insight into why the world's oceans are full of more species than ever before -...
Dinosaurs were warm-blooded, says new study
Dinosaurs were warm-blooded, according to a new technique that analyzes the chemistry of dinosaur eggshells.
“Dinosaurs sit at an evolutionary point between birds, which are...
Were dinosaurs warm blooded? Their eggshells say yes
A Yale-led study turns up the heat on a key question about dinosaurs’ body temperature: Were they warm-blooded or cold-blooded?
According to a new technique...
Ancient Antarctic ice melt increased sea levels by over 3 meters — and it...
Mass melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet was a major cause of high sea levels during a period known as the Last Interglacial...
Human activity contaminated Himalayan glacier long before people arrived, study shows
Scientists found byproducts of coal combustion in a glacier on one of the world's highest peaks.
The finding shows human activity, likely from Europe,...