A recent study shows that marine oxygen levels were crucial to the evolution of early Paleozoic trilobite body size, ...

The Atlantic Ocean was formed by the dramatic break-up of the supercontinent Pangea, splintering our planet into drifting ...

While many people still believe we are three to five years out from true commercial viability for quantum computing, as ...

New research reveals that shifts in plant life played a key role in speeding up major climate changes during the late Miocene ...

Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for over 150 million years. Compared to the mere 4–6 million years that scientists believe humans ...

Ancient volcanic winters, not just carbon dioxide warming, likely triggered the end-Triassic extinction when dinosaurs rose ...

Imagine a world before dinosaurs, where the land was ruled by toothy predators with a terrifying bite. Long before the famous ...

Beneath the towering Guadalupe Mountains of Texas lies a dramatic story of transformation. Once part of an ancient sea, the ...

This fossil is 13 million years older than any ant fossil found before—and reveals a sophisticated predator that lived ...

More than 230 million years ago, long before giant dinosaurs thundered across Earth, a chicken-sized creature walked near the ...

S et a time machine to around 275 million years ago and the Guadalupe Mountains would look like another world. Instead of ...