Of the heavy metals spewed by dying stars, the astronomers were particularly interested in iron-60. That’s because iron-60 is ...

During the early Paleocene, about 66 to 56 million years ago, a species of small mammal known as Mixodectes pungens […] ...

A team of researchers at the University of Oxford have uncovered crucial evidence for the origin of water on Earth. Using a ...

An analysis of North America’s fossil record for the 18 million years before dinosaurs disappeared suggests the prehistoric ...

which took place 66 million years ago. We all know about it because it was the event that wiped out the dinosaurs (except for ...

Two Paleontology and Evolution students from the University of Bristol have undertaken the first ever study which describes ...

A hotspot from underneath Earth’s crust may have created a low point that glaciers finished carving out and filling with ...

Despite previous research, Earth's long-gone mega-reptiles probably weren't dying off before an impact winter did them in for ...

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent, Easter Island rises out of the sea. Its surface ...