At the edge of East Antarctica, where the wind howls through a white emptiness and the air bites harder than steel, ...

A team of researchers at The University of New Mexico has uncovered how a peculiar, prehistoric plant might unlock new ways ...

Far from boring, this period saw the reorganization of deep Earth in manners that prepared the way for life to grow complex.

A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS), along ...

Learn more about Wadisuchus kassabi, the crocodile’s ancient cousin that thrived in prehistoric oceans and rewrites this ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest directly dated ice and air on Earth in East Antarctica, dating back six million years.

Wadisuchus kassabi, an ancient crocodile from Egypt, shows crocodiles lived in the sea, offering insight into reptile ...

About 250 million years ago, as life was recovering from Earth’s greatest mass extinction, some reptiles began to change ...

A chemical "anomaly" revealed through an analysis of meteorites may have led to finding the first existing evidence of "proto ...

A 49-foot prehistoric snake, Vasuki indicus, has been discovered in India, rewriting our understanding of ancient reptiles.

Carl Sagan explained the thought process of the ancient Greek scientist Eratosthenes, who determined the circumference of the ...

A study led by researchers from the University of Sydney and the University of Adelaide has revealed how the breakup of an ...