For years, scientists believed the “giant impact” that formed the Moon melted and reshaped the entire young Earth, erasing its original composition. The new MIT findings challenge that view.

A major dinosaur trackway, 166 million years old, has been discovered in Oxfordshire. This find reveals hundreds of ...

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there's a Monster Mash and you can meet the “Ghosts of ...

"They’re iconic features." Scientists issue warning that ancient US feature could completely vanish: 'We'll be the first to ...

Only twelve examples of the larva convivialis are known, with the 2.6 inch figurine now housed at Getty Villa in Los Angeles.

Researchers report Cretaceous insects trapped in amber from Ecuador’s Napo region, revealing a 112-million-year-old humid ...

The experiments offer new insights one of the “biggest unknowns” in how the climate will change in the years to come ...

OXFORDSHIRE, England (CBS, KYMA) - Dinosaur fans, this one's for you as scientists have uncovered a giant set of tracks over ...

Poisoning by lead is usually thought of as a disease of relatively modern civilisations. Yet in a paper just published in ...

Lead poisoning isn't just a modern phenomenon: fossil teeth show signs that it affected ancient hominids, and Homo sapiens ...

The Islamic Golden Age thrived as Greek thought, preserved by the Byzantines and rendered into Arabic, powered Baghdad’s ...

Insects have long pollinated plants, but evidence of ancient pairing is rare. Fossils now show bees and linden trees goes back 24 million years.