Paleontologists have discovered the fossilized remains of a previously unknown pachycephalosaur species in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert. The fossil is both the most skeletally complete and geologically ...

A striking new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a star cluster called N11, which is part of the Large ...

In a new study, scientists analyzed ancient microbial DNA from 483 mammoth remains spanning over 1 million years, including 440 newly-sequenced and unpublished samples from a 1.1-million-year-old ...

Archaeologists from the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and elsewhere have found traces of indigotin -- a blue secondary ...

Geologists have discovered compelling evidence for preservation of Hadean rocks — dating back to 4.16 billion years old — in a complex geological sequence called the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt, ...

Khankhuuluu mongoliensis roamed our planet during the Cretaceous period, some 86 million years ago. This dinosaur was a medium-sized, fleet-footed predator that evolved after the extinction of other ...

Mosura fentoni was about the size of your index finger and had three eyes, spiny jointed claws, a circular mouth lined with teeth and a body with swimming flaps along its sides. However, the new ...

“To paraphrase the Greek philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesus, who famously said Panta Rhei — everything moves, we thought that perhaps Panta Kykloutai — everything turns,” said Dr. István Szapudi, an ...

A bizarre new genus and species of ornithomimid dinosaur has been identified from the fossilized remains found in 2014 in Coahuila, Mexico. The newly-identified dinosaur species roamed Earth during ...

Written in Greek, this papyrus is a memorandum for a judicial hearing before a Roman official in the province of Judea or Arabia in the reign of the Roman emperor Hadrian, after his visit to the ...