Today, research published in Nature reports that Spicomellus afer had a tail weapon more than 30 million years before any other ankylosaur, as well as a unique bony collar ringed with metre-long ...

Wildlife Photographer of the Year is back, celebrating the most extraordinary life with which we share this planet while ...

The ~12,000-year-old remains of a man were discovered in a cave with a fatal injury to the neck caused by a quartz-tipped projectile.

Some of the most basic building blocks of the solar system are missing from one of its most dangerous asteroids.

Moon rock collected on the last Apollo mission is revealing more about one of the Moon’s most unusual structures, the Light ...

A new species of sail-backed dinosaur has been named after a famous sailor.

On closer inspection, Lockwood realised the animal would have probably possessed a pronounced sail-like structure along its back, helping to set it apart from other dinosaurs found on the island. His ...

One of the papers is the first major study of the chemistry of Bennu, published today in Nature Astronomy, revealing that the sample is chemically primitive and contains a mixture of materials with ...

Killer whales (also called orcas) are apex predators, meaning they are at the top of their food chain. They feed on fish and squid like other odontocetes (toothed whales) do, but will also target ...

“In Morocco, for example, all sorts of different fossils are sold, from trilobites and ammonites to vertebrates such as ...

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