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Remarkably preserved fossils found in southern China offer a fascinating window into what life looked like at the end of the ...

A distorted dinosaur skull, once dismissed as unusable, became the focus of a detailed digital reconstruction that revealed ...

I have been a vegan for a number of years, but have kept it low key. I am surrounded by meat eaters and “vegetarians” and have been too self-conscious to ...

New research reveals that mass extinctions, from the End-Triassic event to the Late Pleistocene megafauna losses, have left ...

In this eye-opening talk, fish paleobiologist Lauren Sallan explains how one of Earth’s most devastating mass extinctions ...

Seventy-five million years ago, a Cimolodon desosai lived in the waning days of the Cretaceous period. While dinosaurs ruled ...

An international team of Earth scientists led by Utrecht professor Douwe van Hinsbergen has developed an online tool that ...

An online tool lets you trace where any latitude location on Earth was 320 million years ago, revealing how continents drift ...

Artificial intelligence might be driving growth for data centre companies, but society is unprepared for the long-term risks posed to the rest of us.