Some whittled down to just 30 percent of their original size, an adaptation to increasing temperatures known as the ...
Archaeopteryx, long considered the earliest fossil bird, could be knocked off its perch by Baminornis zhenghensis, which ...
A research team led by Professor Wang Min from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has discovered two bird fossils in Jurassic-era ...
Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago ...
Glaciers, sediments, and pollen can be used to reconstruct the climate of the past. Beyond "nature's archive," other sources, ...
The Little Ice Age was a period of global cooling that began during around 1300 CE and lasted until about 1850. Average ...
Records from 500 years ago document floods, famine and death in 16th century Transylvania due to wild weather swings during the Little Ice Age.
An unexpected radioactive discovery beneath the Pacific Ocean seabed may provide researchers with a new global geologic time ...
On the windswept stretch of Koekohe Beach along New Zealand’s Otago coast, a group of massive, spherical rocks has been ...
For nearly 30 million years, a 2,000-pound beast known as the entelodont ruled a sweeping empire from Mongolia to what is now ...
Exploring the transformation of Earth from a volcanic hellscape to a potential birthplace of life during the Hadean era.