Frozen in time 112 million years ago, an entire ecosystem preserved in amber has been unearthed from a quarry in Ecuador.

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78 million years ago, a 1.6 km asteroid slammed into what is now Finland, creating a crater 23 km (14 mi) wide and 750 km ...

To find out more, we studied about 400,000 UK residents aged between 39 and 73, and a further 13,500 Australian residents ...

MIT physicists have proposed a way to make a super sci-fi-sounding device: a neutrino 'laser,' which could help us probe the ...

New research suggests that a swarm of debris from an exploding comet left its mark by triggering the Younger Dryas, a period ...

"It's quite remote, quite pristine, and yet still showing this substantial decline in insects," Sockman told Alana Wise at NPR. "That doesn't leave a lot of other options other than changing climate ...

An eye-opening experiment on cephalopods reinforces why it is so important for us not to underestimate animal intelligence.

Chimpanzees consume the equivalent of at least one alcoholic drink per day as they eat ripe, fermenting fruit, says a study out Wednesday that addresses one possible reason why humans are drawn to ...