A ferocious relative of the crocodile that hunted dinosaurs has been discovered, a forgotten superpredator from the ...

Giant anacondas grew large early and kept that size for millions of years, surviving climate shifts and habitat changes ...

About 50,000 years ago, humanity lost one of its last surviving hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (also known as "the hobbit ...

A dinosaur egg laid 70 million years ago holds the remains of an "exquisite" embryo that shows how dinosaurs positioned ...

Some 4.6 billion years ago, Earth was nothing like the gentle blue planet we know today. Frequent and violent celestial impacts churned its surface and interior into a seething ocean of magma—an ...

When the early Earth’s magma ocean crystallized 4.4 billion years ago, the deep mantle trapped an ocean’s worth of water, ...

They say one person's trash is another's treasure, but a chunk of 'rock' used to keep a door open for decades is a treasure ...

Pigs, rats, cats and mongooses, all brought to the island decades earlier by humans, were to blame for their demise, preying ...

Saturn is a planet widely recognisable for its iconic rings but a new study suggests Earth may also have had a similar ring system over 50 million years ago. As part of the research, 21 asteroid ...

Recently, a team of researchers led by Prof. DU Zhixue from the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry of the Chinese Academy of ...

Tarbosaurus bataar lived during the Cretaceous period and disappeared some 65 million years ago.There have been no specimens of T.bataar reported outside of Asia.