A sliver of Martian rock that once lay hidden in a university drawer has helped researchers better understand the Red ...

Scientists recently discovered the fossilised remains of a giant “terror bird" in South America’s Tatacoa Desert which has ...

Scientists uncovered the ancient brain structure of an 80-million-year-old fossil bird named Navaornis hestiae, providing ...

A team of scientists has found evidence of liquid water on Mars from 742 million years ago in a Martian meteorite known as ...

The presence of glacial evidence in this location strongly supports the idea that ice covered the entire planet.

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Dust Of The Earth, however, is very close to my heart. Q: You set a number of novels in ancient China - what draws you to write about China and feature Chinese characters? A: I wrote my first ...

A rare Triassic fossil unearthed in Brazil, Gondwanax paraisensis, could provide new insights into the origins of dinosaurs.

Edwin McKee’s groundbreaking work on the Grand Canyon’s geology has been revisited by a modern team, revealing new insights ...

Ever since the term “Snowball Earth” was first proposed in a 1992 paper, it has prompted substantial debate among scientists.

Since ancient times, the sun has been known as a giver of light and heat, a source of life. Plants are coaxed from the Earth ...

Today, Antarctica is a huge frozen continent, though it was once temperate enough to be covered in swampy forests. Now, a ...