Scientists get first look at cause of ‘slow motion’ earthquakes
An international team of scientists has for the first time identified the conditions deep below the Earth's surface that lead to the triggering of...
In Earth’s largest extinction, land die-offs began long before ocean turnover
The mass extinction at the end of the Permian Peri od 252 million years ago -- one of the great turnovers of life on...
This feathered dinosaur was one of the last surviving raptors
A new feathered dinosaur that lived in New Mexico 67 million years ago is one of the last known surviving raptor species, according to...
Scientists discover new species of flying pterosaurs
A community of flying reptiles that inhabited the Sahara 100 million years ago has been discovered by a University of Portsmouth palaeontologist and an...
Scientists discover the ancestor of all animals in fossils
A team led by UC Riverside geologists has discovered the first ancestor on the family tree that contains most familiar animals today, including humans.
The...
Darkness, not cold, likely responsible for dinosaur-killing extinction
Roughly 66 million years ago an asteroid slammed into the Yucatan peninsula.
New research shows darkness, not cold, likely drove a mass extinction after...
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...