While there are warnings of a 'super El Niño', a powerful weather event which could lead to next year being the warmest on ...

A study of 50 crab species in Japan traces the iconic sideways walk to a single ancestor, suggesting the trait drove the ...

Fossils of an ancestor to the modern crocodile were recently found in North Carolina. The 231-million-year-old fossils included a skull, spine and forelimbs of what was a nearly 3-metre-long juvenile ...

Corals are in fact three things in one: something of an animal, something of a plant, and something of a stone. They make ...

Rare coastal discovery: A tourist at Lyme Regis found a fragment of the oldest known marine crocodile, exposed by natural cliff erosion. Unique fossil conditions: The Jurassic Coast’s geology and ...

It’s often called “the time it rained for two million years.” That’s not quite right, but the real story may be even stranger ...

Few Know of the Most Destructive Volcano in Italy Typically, volcanoes spill tons of methane during an eruption. The ...

A newly discovered ancient crocodile cousin from a 210-million-year-old Triassic crocodile fossil reveals a powerful ...

Ancient predator revealed: A digitally reconstructed late Triassic skull analysed by a student led to the identification of a new carnivorous dinosaur species. Older than T. rex: Ptychotherates ...

Learn about the new estimate for the emergence of dinosaurs, which may have occurred 250 million to 240 million years ago.

Learn how egg size may help explain why ammonites didn’t survive the end-Cretaceous extinction 66 million years ago, while ...

A forgotten fossil hidden inside a garden wall has turned out to be one of Australia’s most remarkable prehistoric discoveries. Scientists have now identified the 240-million-year-old amphibian, ...