Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers at Edinburgh are studying footprints such as from this sauropod dinosaur on the Isle of Skye - Paige dePolo/University ...

Even when Earth was locked in its most extreme deep freeze, the planet’s climate may not have been as silent and still as once believed. New research from ancient Scottish rocks reveals that during ...

When the asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago, the immediate destruction was only the beginning. Firestorms, global ...

Paleontologists have identified thousands of animal species that lived soon after the Cambrian explosion ended ...

An international research team led by Dr. Lorenzo Marchetti from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin has described the oldest known impressions of reptile skin from the Thuringian Forest in central ...

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our planet's history.

A treasure trove of Cambrian fossils has been discovered in southern China, providing a window on marine life shortly after Earth’s first mass extinction event ...

In A Nutshell Mars was erupting while T. rex roamed Earth: A Martian volcano system was active between 64 and 50 million ...

As much as 45 oceans’ worth of hydrogen may be in Earth’s core, scientists reported, suggesting most of Earth’s water was acquired during the planet’s formation.

Advanced CT imaging of rare Devonian lungfish fossils in Australia and China is revealing unexpected anatomical details.

The climate warmed up almost as quickly 56 million years ago as it is doing now. When a huge amount of CO 2 entered the atmosphere in a short period of time, it led to large-scale forest fires and ...

The exceptionally well-preserved fossils shine a light on the mass extinction that brought an end to the "Biological Big Bang." ...