Around 591 million years ago, Earth’s nearly vanished magnetic field triggered a surge in oxygen that paved the way for ...

Fossilized tracks from an early reptile are now the oldest known reptilian tracks, meaning the tetrapod ancestor most likely ...

The earliest cells harnessed energy through geochemical reactions, a process that LMU researchers have now successfully ...

Lewis Pugh has followed an unspoken rule during his career as one of the world’s most daring endurance swimmers: Don’t talk ...

Fossil tracks found in Australia push the origin of reptiles back by 40 million years, altering the timeline of tetrapod ...

Embedded in the slab’s fine sandstone are delicate imprints: long toes ending in sharp claws, left by an animal that trotted ...

The mysterious ‘ghost mountains’ – buried beneath kilometres of Antarctic ice – have puzzled scientists for decades.

A Soviet-era spacecraft is set to reenter Earth's atmosphere after over 50 years, returning this week from its failed mission to Venus. NASA said on May 5 that Cosmos 482 will return to Earth ...

A lost Soviet satellite is crashing back towards Earth, 50 years after it was launched into ... MORE THAN 170 MILLION PIECES OF DEAD SATELLITES, SPENT ROCKETS AND FLAKES OF PAINT POSE 'THREAT ...

appeared on land roughly 400 million years ago. But long before any of these organisms emerged, single-celled eukaryotes, the ancestors of plants, animals and fungi, had already begun venturing out of ...

It likely lived in New Zealand between 60 and 50 million years ago ... Giant penguins were alive on Earth until about 20 million years ago. So, just how did this bird’s species go extinct? It’s hard ...