Sixty-six million years ago, a massive asteroid smashed into Earth. Life has undergone at least five mass extinctions in the last 500 million years, but this one particularly stands out. It wiped out ...

Once in a while, a fossil preserves behavior - and in 1923, a small feathered theropod from Mongolia seemed to be caught red-handed over a clutch of eggs, earning the name Oviraptor, the “egg thief.” ...

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws ...

If someone showed you photos of Onyx Cave without context, you’d probably assume they were concept art from the latest space ...

A ‘smiling’ fossil has gone viral after being discovered by a tourist on Holy Island. Christine Clark visits Northumberland ...

For nearly five decades, Steven Spielberg has helped define what alien stories mean to movie audiences. Sometimes they arrive as cosmic miracles. Sometimes as existential threats. Sometimes as ...

Research Associate, Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW Sydney We know what to do to tackle the climate crisis: replace fossil fuels with clean energy technologies such as solar, wind, ...

The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where preservation shouldn’t be possible. Scientists now think their survival in ...

Cambrian Period fossils date to about 512 million years ago Fossils show invertebrates of various shapes and sizes They reveal animal legs, gills, guts, eyes and even nerves Jan 28 (Reuters) - ...

Timothy G. Bromage receives funding from The Leakey Foundation. Blood tests are useful tools for doctors and scientific researchers: they can reveal a lot about a body’s health. Usually, a blood ...

An extraordinary 512-million-year-old fossil site has been discovered in southern China, preserving in vivid detail almost an entire ecosystem from a time shortly after Earth’s first mass extinction ...

Part of what makes some classics worthy of such a title is the ingenuity and borderline movie magic they employ to tell their story. In the case of "Alien," for example, director Ridley Scott used ...