New fossil discovery shows 50 million-year-old Canada-Australia connection
The discovery of a tiny insect fossil is unearthing big questions about the global movement of animals and the connection to changes in climate...
Where did all the water on Earth come from?
The formation of our solar system was a messy affair.
Most of the material that existed before its formation—material formed around other, long-dead stars—was vaporized,...
Scientists take a page from deep space to study deep earth
Big data approach can help map what's beneath the Earth's surface.
Using a new technique originally designed to explore the cosmos, scientists have unveiled structures...
These ancient crocodiles walked on two legs like dinosaurs
Scientists have been stunned to discover that some species of ancient crocodiles walked on their two hind legs like dinosaurs and measured over three...
Scientists detect unexpected widespread structures near Earth’s core
Scientists conduct first simultaneous analysis of hundreds of earthquakes to identify echoes from features deep inside Earth.
The echoes revealed more widespread, heterogenous structures--areas of...
Moon’s surface is still changing, says new study
Scientists have analyzed an archive of more than two million images of the lunar surface and have created the first global map of rockfalls...
Scientists find the biggest and oldest Maya monument
The Maya civilization may have developed more rapidly than archaeologists once thought, according to new research.
From the ground, it’s impossible to tell that the...
Scientists decode the Dead Sea Scrolls puzzle with DNA fingerprints
The collection of more than 25,000 fragments of ancient manuscripts known as the Dead Sea Scrolls include, among other ancient texts, the oldest copies...
Scientists find rare pterodactyl fossil in the UK
The first ever specimen of a pterodactyl, more commonly found in China and Brazil, has been found in the United Kingdom.
A fossil hunter recently...
Scientists find a much earlier birth date for tectonic plates
Yale geophysicists reported that Earth’s ever-shifting, underground network of tectonic plates was firmly in place more than 4 billion years ago — at least...