Legged snake fossils shed light on how snakes got their bite and lost their...
New fossils of an ancient legged snake, called Najash, shed light on the origin of the slithering reptiles.
The fossil discoveries published in Science Advances...
Scientists find the Nile river is about six times older than previously thought
Ancient Egyptians considered the Nile river to be the source of all life.
The steady northward path of the river has nourished the fertile valleys...
New fossil pushes back physical evidence of insect pollination to 99 million years ago
A new study has pushed back the first-known physical evidence of insect flower pollination to 99 million years ago, during the mid-Cretaceous period.
The revelation...
Scientists discover the ‘ghost’ footprints from Pleistocene era
Invisible footprints hiding since the end of the last ice age – and what lies beneath them – have been discovered by Cornell researchers...
Scientists decode 3,000-year-old Egyptian wheat genome for first time
The genome of an ancient Egyptian wheat has been sequenced for the first time by a UCL-led team, revealing historical patterns of crop movement...
New fossils show life’s recovery after dinosaur-killing asteroid strike
A newly discovered collection of fossils reveals how life recovered after the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago at...
Why are big storms bringing so much more rain?
For three hurricane seasons in a row, storms with record-breaking rainfall have caused catastrophic flooding in the southern United States: Harvey in 2017, Florence...
Deep dive into Earth’s interior shows change isn’t skin deep
They say it's what's on the inside that counts.
And so it goes with the planet's surface; from mountain ranges to a river's drainage, the...
NASA moon rocks help form new picture of early moon and Earth
Scientists believe the moon formed after a large object crashed into the Earth, but details have been murky about what happened next.
Most people only...
Scientists solve the ocean acidity mystery in last mass extinction
A new study led by Yale University confirms a long-held theory about the last great mass extinction event in history and how it affected...