An international research team led by the Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research at the University of Vienna has made an extraordinary discovery: fossilized lime blossoms and fossilized bumble ...

The tiny bug needs a rest. Almost any spot will do. 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 ...

But ancient New Zealand was home to an extinct species of great penguin around three million years ago, during a period in Earth's history known as the mid-Piacenzian Warming Period. (Image credit: CC ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

Three million years ago, an extinct relative of today's great penguins—emperors and kings—lived in Aotearoa New Zealand. We know this because our new study published in the Journal of Paleontology ...

An artist's illustration depicts a baby pterosaur struggling against the powerful winds of a storm. - Rudolf Hima A violent storm may have sent two baby pterosaurs spiraling to their deaths in a ...

Daniel Thomas has received funding from Massey University. Alan Tennyson and Felix Georg Marx do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would ...

A deformed human skull discovered over thirty years ago in central China is now upending what researchers believed they understood about our origins. The fossil, named Yunxian 2, was extracted from ...

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 ...

An exploding star may have sent cosmic shrapnel flying to hit Earth 10 million years ago, and astronomers have now narrowed down the most likely culprits behind this interstellar incident. Earlier ...