The dinosaurs existed on our planet for roughly one hundred and sixty five million years, and for the majority of that time, ...

In the late Cretaceous period, the world was a land teeming with gigantic creatures, and South America was home to some of ...

A University of Portsmouth student has discovered a new species of prehistoric mammal dating back 145 million years to the ...

Because of the moon’s position, Earth is rotating just over a millisecond faster than usual on a few days this summer ...

Scientists at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science discovered a 67 million-year-old dinosaur fossil hidden under their noses — in the museum’s parking lot.

A study of a fossilized pterosaur from China has confirmed that some of these prehistoric creatures had a surprisingly varied ...

CT scans of Cretaceous fossils reveal seven ancient worm species that bored into marine bones and shaped deep-sea ecosystems.

Earth has experienced both hot and cold periods over time, though warm times have been more common. That’s true of the last 485 million years, as seen in this timeline reported in 2024. Our genus, ...

When large marine animals like whales die, they sink down to the seabed. Once their flesh has been stripped away by ...

New discoveries surrounding the origins of Stonehenge have piqued the nation’s interest in all things archaeological. Here ...

Museum officials uncovered a rare Cretaceous dinosaur bone 750 feet beneath their Denver parking lot, potentially the city's ...