Dinosaur that roamed England’s swamps 125 million years ago identified - Palaeontologists are reexamining fossils in Natural ...

New evidence suggests that early humans reached the Jordan Valley at least 1.9 million years ago, hundreds of thousands of ...

Stepping into Earth as it existed 200 million years ago would feel less like time travel and more like arriving on an ...

An ancient fossil bed in Mongolia preserves tiny organisms in remarkable detail. Some even have structures resembling embryos ...

Scientists have identified a new species of ancient, squid-like belemnite from Wyoming after discovering the thickest ...

The "chunky" giant salamander-sized ocean bottom-dwelling creature was almost three feet long with a disc-shaped body and covered in bony armor.

A violent storm may have sent two baby pterosaurs spiraling to their deaths in a lagoon about 150 million years ago, based on a new analysis of the tiny, astonishingly well-preserved fossils. This ...

Around 56 million years ago, Earth suddenly got much hotter. Over about 5,000 years, the amount of carbon in the atmosphere drastically increased and global temperatures shot up by some 6°C. As we ...

Science China Press] Earth’s magnetic field is generated by the convection of liquid iron in the outer core. It forms a ...

Early Eocene forest, Wyoming, U.S. Illustration by Julius Csotonyi, Smithsonian Institution Pollinators play a vital role in fertilising flowers, which grow into seeds and fruits and underpin our ...

Learn more about the ancient footprints found in Greece, which could upend theories on hominin emigration from Africa. Footprints that stroll through a patchy area of Grecian beach 6 million years ago ...

New research suggests animals could have evolved as early as 800 to 700 million years ago, roughly 200 million years earlier than some previous estimates. If so, the first animals may have lived ...