Around 600 million years ago, Earth was home to strange, soft-bodied sea creatures, but a powerful asteroid impact in what is ...

In a nutshell Ferruaspis brocksi was found with its stomach contents, skin pigmentation, and even a parasitic mussel still ...

Evidence of one of the smallest - and perhaps unluckiest - early human relatives has been found in South Africa, according to ...

Her world—100 million years ago in Myanmar—is not one of vast seas, towering mountains or broad deserts, but a damp and gnarled landscape of branches, trunks and leaves that provide a seemingly ...

Plutonium discovered at the bottom of the ocean was found to be refuse from a kilonova that exploded close to Earth 10 ...

New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent asteroid broke apart; its orbit ...

Newly analyzed fossil skeleton of Mixodectes pungens reveals its tree-dwelling lifestyle, dietary habits, and ties to ...

Dinosaur bones have taught us a great deal about these animals from the "age of dinosaurs," the Mesozoic Era, which stretched from approximately 252 million years ago to 65 million years ago.