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

Several new species of coelacanths that lived at the end of the Triassic period, some 200 million years ago, have been identified from museum specimens unearthed over 150 years ago in the United ...

Paleontologists in China have discovered the skeletal remains of a remarkable new genus and species of huge-sized mamenchisaurid dinosaur from the Late Jurassic epoch. The newly-described species ...

Geologists have discovered compelling evidence for preservation of Hadean rocks — dating back to 4.16 billion years old — in a complex geological sequence called the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt, ...

Archaeologists in Bolivia have discovered an ancient complex roughly 215 km (130 miles) south-east of Tiwanaku’s historical site, where a large, modular building with an integrated, sunken courtyard ...

Khankhuuluu mongoliensis roamed our planet during the Cretaceous period, some 86 million years ago. This dinosaur was a medium-sized, fleet-footed predator that evolved after the extinction of other ...

Traskasaura sandrae, a 12-m-long elasmosaur (a type of plesiosaur) that lived in the Cretaceous seas, 85 million years ago, had a strange mix of primitive and derived traits unlike any other ...

Mosura fentoni was about the size of your index finger and had three eyes, spiny jointed claws, a circular mouth lined with teeth and a body with swimming flaps along its sides. However, the new ...

Up until now, the accepted understanding about these egg-laying was that they were both descended from a land-bound ancestor. And while the platypus ancestors became semiaquatic, the echidnas stayed ...

Paleontologists from the American University in Cairo and elsewhere say they have found an almost complete skull of the hyaenodont Bastetodon syrtos in the lower Oligocene layers of the Jebel Qatrani ...

Written in Greek, this papyrus is a memorandum for a judicial hearing before a Roman official in the province of Judea or Arabia in the reign of the Roman emperor Hadrian, after his visit to the ...