Rocks from the Hadean Eon, the first period in the geological timescale, have been dated in Québec. These are some of the ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

For the first time, scientists have sequenced the oldest and complete DNA set of an ancient Egyptian man, dating to when the ...

In his new book '52 Assignments: Night Photography', award-winning astrophotographer Josh Dury invites you to raise your lens ...

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...

The genome of a man who lived in Egypt over 4500 years ago offers a new window on the ancient society and hints at ...

The Ammonite citadel was uncovered at the western end of the acropolis of Tell Umairi and its walls were much thicker than normal domestic dwellings, ca.1.10-1.75 m, and it has been suggested that the ...

Marine bivalves lost around three-quarters of their species during this mass extinction, which marked the end of the Cretaceous Period. My colleagues and I ... that can feed as many people the next ...

The animals that plummeted 85 feet into Wyoming’s Natural Trap Cave provide a layered history of life dating back to the ...

Belemnites stayed in the Boreal waters. Dinoflagellates, diatoms, and radiolarians were less abundant but important during this time. The ammonites fed on the free-swimming invertebrates.

It dates back to the Carboniferous Period, which was over 300 million years ago—long before dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Most iridescent ammonite fossils known today come from the Mesozoic Era ...

One of the most popular period dramas of all time, Downton Abbey has been a huge success in both the UK and in the US. The series, which first launched in 2010, follows the aristocratic lives of ...