About 131 million years ago, an 11-foot-long ichthyosaur slammed snout first into the seafloor and was rapidly buried by ...

Genomes sequenced from 7,000-year-old mummies in the Sahara have revealed a previously unknown population that inhabited the vast desert during its greener past.

Ship of Dreams is hosted by actor Paul McGann ( Withnail and I, etc), who sets out what we can expect over the course of the ...

The night sky will dazzle this week as the Lyrid meteor shower kicks off its annual display, marking the return of one of the ...

In a quiet part of what is now South Australia, more than half a billion years ago, life was locked in battle. The ocean ...

The discovery sheds some light on a "lost" dynasty of pharaohs who ruled during a little-understood time in ancient Egypt's long history.

He’d told me he hoped to one day live in a house with power and water, but Mr Camfoo never was in a rush and never complained ...

Prairie and savanna prescribed fires can be good trouble if they’re carefully timed and controlled. Their purpose is to help ...

Fiona’s fossil shows rare preservation of a pregnant ichthyosaur, revealing life, death, ancient disasters, and scientific ...