It’s fun to conceptualise like this, and set the human story within the grand perspective of Earth’s history. But there’s a ...

The field of paleo-inspired robotics is opening up a new way to turn back time and studying prehistoric animals.

Scientists have discovered that Earth's inner core, previously thought to be solid and unchanging, has experienced ...

Scientists at Yale and in Singapore have devised what may be the ultimate acid test—a comprehensive model for estimating the ...

Elizabeth Kneafsey hates cities and crowds, instead she cares for her flock of 130 ‘Shetlandics’ and spends lambing season ...

The Florida Museum isn’t the first institution to send fossils into space. Small fossils of a bat, several dinosaurs, a crinoid, a hominid and a trilobite have also made the journey there and back.

North Sentinel Island remains one of Earth's last true time capsules—its people living as their ancestors did for millennia, untouched by modern civilization. And since 1956, the Indian government has ...

Scientists have made an exciting discovery—a 69-million-year-old fossil found in Antarctica is the oldest known modern bird.

Introduction to Fossil Fuels Fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas have powered our world for centuries. They ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

A recent study revealed that 2020 was the greenest year recorded by modern satellite observations from 2001 to 2020. This surge in greenery was particularly evident in northern and temperate regions, ...

NASA's Perseverance rover collects Martian soil samples from Jezero Crater, revealing potential signs of past life on Mars.