While volcanism caused a temporary cold period, the effects had already worn off thousands of years before the meteorite, the ultimate cause of the dinosaur extinction event, impacted.

Massive volcanic eruptions on the Indian peninsula have long been proposed as an alternative cause for the demise of the ...

Eurasia and Africa were once populated by 13-tonne, 4 metre tall elephants, but their evolution has long remained a puzzle. A ...

A new species belonging to the gorgonopsians, the ancient ancestors of mammals, was found on the Spanish island of Mallorca.

The origin of mammals is shrouded in mystery, but every fossil clue helps rewrite the story. A new discovery on a ...

Thanks to scientific discoveries across Asia, we can trace the origins of Indian curry back several millennia. Here's what we ...

The prehistoric creature is thought to have lived around 280-270 million years ago and was likely a "top predator" in its day ...

Palaeontologists have discovered what could be the first sabre-toothed animal in history, which lived on Earth before the time of dinosaurs.In a study published in Nature Communications, a team of ...

Delve in to the wonderful world of Birds and discover their incredible behaviour through photos from our Wildlife ...

Vaguely dog-like” animal is one of the oldest-known close cousins of modern mammals. Researchers have discovered the oldest ...

The idea that Saturn's rings are young seemed very strange in the context of the solar system's long evolutionary history." ...

During the Jurassic period, flying reptiles with the same wingspan as a modern golden eagle glided through the skies until [… ...