While Earth's slowdown is not noticeable on human timescales, it's enough to work significant changes over eons. One of those changes is perhaps the most significant of all, at least to us: ...

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Virginia Tech study unveils 2 billion years of evolution, highlighting the 'boring billion,' Snowball Earth, and ancient ...

The five sets of tracks represent four-legged sauropods and a three-toed carnivore that might have crossed paths on a ...

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From deadly 'living fossils' to glowing sea angels, the ocean floor is home to creatures almost alien to us. Here are five incredible creatures straight from the deep.

Discover why scientists now believe volcanic eruptions did not play a role in the mass extinction of the dinosaurs.

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The world's best-preserved baby mammoth, Yana, was discovered in Siberia's permafrost, offering insights into life 50,000 ...

This massive space rock has a potential destructive force of 12 million tonnes of TNT. Huge space rock 2024 XN1, which is also dubbed as the 'Christmas Eve asteroid' and is the size of an ...

The jaw will now be studied to figure out how old it is, what the mastodon ate and what its life was like during the Ice Age. “This jaw is an amazing discovery,” said Dr. Robert Feranec ...