Cataclysmic cosmic collisions may have benefited the evolution of primitive organisms early in Earth's history, a study says.

They may be an ocean apart, but dinosaur footprints found in South America and Africa are so similar that their discovery ...

Both scientific ‘red herrings’ and flaws in human logic led to inaccurate ‘Pompeii effect’ hypothesis.

Between about 120 million and 130 million years ago, during the age of dinosaurs, temperate forests and lakes hosted a lively ...

Volcanic eruptions caused sulfates to gush into the air and turned Earth into an icebox. Later, dinosaurs came into this ...

The space rock that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period caused a global calamity that ...

The extremely rare Indian purple frog doesn’t really look like a frog. It’s also a living fossil that’s been around since ...

Millions of cubic miles of lava erupted over some 600,000 years, separating what are now the Americas, Europe and North ...

Around 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs were killed by an enormous ... era at the Nadir crater off the coast of Guinea in western Africa -- proving once and for all that nature really had ...

A famous fossil formation in the Yixian region of Northeast China has revealed some of the most striking, well-preserved dinosaur remains on record. Over the past 60 years, archaeologists ...

What do the ginkgo (a tree), the nautilus (a mollusk) and the coelacanth (a fish) all have in common? They don’t look alike, ...

Longleat Festival of Lights was declared open on Friday night, with over 1,000 silk lanterns lighting a "journey through time ...