New research suggests that Earth’s orbital variations—the slow changes in its tilt, axial precession, and shape of its ...

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

Known today as the “Black Belt,” the southeastern United States was once covered by an ancient sea—one that continues to ...

Palaeontologists are captivated by the size of record-breaking dinosaurs worldwide. Through measuring bone proportions and ...

Thrips are tiny insects—their sizes range between 0.5mm and 15mm in length and many are shorter than 5mm. But the damage they ...

Namely, a group of primitive amphibians called the temnospondyls. They may have survived the Great Dying by feeding on some ...

In a thrilling revelation for paleontologists and history buffs alike, a new species of early mammal has been discovered in ...

Scientists discovered that volcanic eruptions in India’s Deccan Traps 66 million years ago released gases that altered ...

The six-mile-wide asteroid punched a one-way ticket toward extinction for all non-avian dinosaurs. Some 66 million years ...

They roamed the Earth in the last part of the Cretaceous Period, and their fossils have been discovered all over the world. Unfortunately, these giant dinosaurs, five of which are closely looked at ...