In the ancient landscapes of what is now northeastern Brazil, 113 million years ago, an unusual ant with bizarre ...

A newly discovered fossil of a four-legged whale in Peru sheds new light on the evolution of whales and their journey across ...

Solidification of a primitive terrestrial magma ocean gradually leading to the formation of a basal magma ocean. An international team of researchers from the Institut de physique du globe de Paris ..

That’s us.’ From Pale Blue Dot (1994) by Carl Sagan. Photo courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech But what, exactly, should we make of ...

FOR centuries wars have been fought on the frontline – but in the future we could see WW3 taking place among the stars. While it would play out some 2,000kilometres above ground, it could ...

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a rare instance allowing scientists to study ancient terrestrial ecosystems directly. Cypress Forest. Image by Spencer Watson via Unsplash. This forest represents a unique time capsule that holds ...

Public perception often frames space exploration as a distant endeavor with limited relevance to terrestrial challenges ... Giving this ancient material a modern twist, Casalgrande Padana uses ...

Deep within the limestone caverns of Texas, scientists have uncovered a remarkable scientific treasure: ancient DNA from giant ground sloths ... show genetic markers for more active metabolisms and ...

We crossed the globe to the tiny, remote island to sample ... under on his way to his first night on land. At Longwood, two ancient cypress trees hold court over the entrance, and an evergreen ...