Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. A day on Earth was just 23.5 hours long, 70 million years ago. Researchers discovered ...

A new species of long-necked dinosaur that lived 75 million years ago has been discovered in Spain. Evidence was found among more than 12,000 fossils collected from 2007 onwards during works to ...

Paleontologists have discovered a new species of dinosaur that lived in Spain some 75 million years ago. The sauropod — dinosaurs that are characterized by their long necks and tails, four thick ...

The researchers focused on bone articular fragments from therian mammals, a group that includes modern marsupials and ...

Researchers have proposed that Earth may have had a ring system 466 million years ago, during a period of intense meteorite bombardment known as the Ordovician impact spike. This finding ...

The team of researchers from the University College London found that on the face value, it appears that the number of ...

The study also provides a new approach to solving one of the biggest enduring scientific mysteries: when did plate tectonics begin?

A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico was created by a massive asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago At the end of the Cretaceous Period 66 million years ago, an ...

Precambrian time covers the vast bulk of the Earth's history, starting with the planet's creation about 4.5 billion years ago and ending with the emergence of complex, multicelled life-forms ...