New research suggests dinosaurs were ecosystem engineers that promoted habitat openness in the Late Cretaceous epoch, and their extinction around 66 million years ago likely led to a dramatic ...

Paleontologists have discovered the fossilized remains of a previously unknown pachycephalosaur species in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert. The fossil is both the most skeletally complete and geologically ...

Using a technique called Resonance Raman spectroscopy, paleontologists have detected hemoglobin remnants in bone extracts from two dinosaur species, Brachylophosaurus canadensis and Tyrannosaurus rex, ...

A striking new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a star cluster called N11, which is part of the Large ...

A new theory by University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist Gunther Kletetschka argues that time comes in three dimensions rather than just the single one we experience as continual forward progression, ...

A team of researchers from University College London and the Cyprus Institute’s Science and Technology in Archaeology and Culture Research Center has solved a major piece of the puzzle that makes up ...

A new genus and species of dwarf lambeosaurine hadrosaurid has come to light in Moroccan rocks dating to the Late Cretaceous epoch, some 68 million years ago. “Duckbill dinosaurs, or hadrosaurids, ...

Pliosaurs were a type of short-necked plesiosaur: marine reptiles built for speed compared to their long-necked cousins. Also known as pliosauroids, these creatures were not dinosaurs, but distant ...

The Universe could be twice as old as current estimates, according to new research from the University of Ottawa that challenges the dominant cosmological model and resolves the ‘impossible early ...

A team of astronomers led by Dr Robert Wittenmyer of the University of New South Wales has discovered a super-Earth orbiting near the inner edge of the habitable zone of Gliese 832 (GJ 832), a ...