Fossils of 'Early Modern Bird' Reveal It Existed Before the Asteroid Strike That Likely Wiped Out the Dinosaurs When a ...

An asteroid impact near the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico around 66 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period ... evidence suggests a temperate climate with lush vegetation, possibly ...

Desert Living Dinosaurs Were as Good as Owls, Had Great Night Vision and Hearing Ability A study led by University of Oxford ...

Scientists have made an exciting discovery—a 69-million-year-old fossil found in Antarctica is the oldest known modern bird.

A QUARTER of a century ago, when first I began to study geology, it appeared to me that a predominance was given to the more recent rocks, such as the Pleistocene, Miocene, Eocene, Cretaceous ...

A study tracking rainfall patterns over thousands of years has found that more arid periods coincided with ages of dynastic ...

Extensive evidence, including global temperature and sea ice data, shows Earth's climate is changing due to human activity.

If these trends continue, it is almost certain 2024 will fall within the first 20-year period of 1.5-degree warming, the report concluded. Both papers stress that rapid and strong climate action ...

Droughts, extreme heat and destructive flooding plagued the region in the sixteenth century, historical documents show.

Historical texts, from official records to personal chronicles, are revealing how 16th-century weather shaped Transylvanian ...

Dungeness crab, Pacific herring, and red abalone are among the marine species most vulnerable to the changing climate's ...

Flooding, famine, plagues. Historical documents from diaries to parish registers detail the dramatic impacts of the Little ...