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 discover what an armored dinosaur ate for its last meal
More than 110 million years ago, a lumbering 1,300-kilogram, armor-plated dinosaur ate its last meal, died, and was washed out to sea in what...
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...
Big theropod dinosaurs ate almost everything—including each other, says study
Researchers surveyed more than 2,000 dinosaur bones from the Jurassic Mygatt-Moore Quarry, a 152-million-year-old fossil deposit in western Colorado, looking for bite marks. They found...
Dinosaur-dooming asteroid struck earth at ‘deadliest possible’ angle
New simulations from Imperial College London have revealed the asteroid that doomed the dinosaurs struck Earth at the ‘deadliest possible’ angle. The simulations show that...
The deep ocean is warming slowly — but dramatic changes are ahead
The world's deep oceans are warming at a slower rate than the surface, but it's still not good news for deep-sea creatures according to...
Neandertals got picky about bones for their tools
Evidence continues to mount that the Neandertals, who lived in Europe and Asia until about 40,000 years ago, were more sophisticated people than once...