In the icy wilderness of Antarctica, where glaciers now dominate the landscape, scientists have unearthed a fossil that ...

In 1992, a paleontologist unearthed the fossil of a prehistoric bird called "Vegavis iaai" in Antarctica and hypothesized that it was an early relative of today's ducks and geese. However, because the ...

Trovants are rocks that grow by absorbing minerals from rainwater. Romania is home to a cluster of trovants that inspired ...

In the heart of San Francisco, California, there’s a place where the curious and the quirky collide, where the past meets the ...

The international scientific community rebuffed this hypothesis. They were looking outside Africa for human origins and ...

Paleontologists have been arguing whether modern birds developed before or after the infamous asteroid for decades. Now, a ...

While experts know details about its diet, size, and general habitat, the aquatic reptile’s skin characteristics have ...

Measurements and data collected from space can be used to better understand life on Earth. An ambitious, multinational research project has demonstrated that Earth's biodiversity can be monitored and ...

Scientists comment on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report on Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage (CCUS) technologies. Prof Hannah Chalmers, Personal Chair of Sustainable Energy Systems, Institute ...

Earliest inner solar system planetesimals shaped the inventory of moderately volatile elements in terrestrial planets.

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

Exploring the transformation of Earth from a volcanic hellscape to a potential birthplace of life during the Hadean era. Insights from a University of California study suggest that early Earth had ...