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 Historical documents from diaries to parish registers detail the dramatic impacts of the Little ...

Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago ...

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The Little Ice Age was a period of global cooling that began during around 1300 CE and lasted until about 1850. Average ...

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The ancient specimens, which were given surprising names by scientists, were found in Herefordshire, in a breakthrough that the research team says challenges beliefs about early molluscs.

The creatures, which date back to the Silurian period and come from a group known ... and for a very long time, we assumed they were rather basic, simple and primitive. "Retrieving fossils that ...

Many think dinosaurs first emerged on land well south of the equator that now forms part of Argentina and Zimbabwe, but they may have actually arisen in tougher conditions near the equator ...

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He can show he is taking steps to fulfil his election promises while buying himself time to figure out thornier issues. Yet, he runs the risk of losing public support if the orders do not produce ...