A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today, according to new ...

A few fossilized body parts hinted at an enigmatic bird's close ties to waterfowl like ducks and geese. A newfound skull may bolster that idea.

The new skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the ...

The other night, illuminated by my car's headlights, I saw a fluttering speck. A moth. A single, solitary moth. And, during ...

In the long and storied history of earth, there have been five mass extinctions, the most famous, of course, being the ...

Asteroids Asteroids have been floating in the dark abyss of space for millions of years. They're often called the remnants of ...

Study suggests dinosaurs originated in the Amazon, but their fossils are missing. They started as small, bipedal creatures in ...

Woolly rhino replica in Western Park museum. Image by Chemical Engineer, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Throughout ...

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

Projectiles flying faster than bullets from a blast 130 times bigger than the global nuclear stockpile helped form giant lunar canyons, according to a new study.

One of the big stories of the week was the discovery of another asteroid which could crash into the Earth in future, causing ...