The comet was discovered in its final stage before impact. As luck would have it, NASA had a probe on its way to Jupiter, ...

“Yellowstone is a dynamic geologic system – the one constant is change.” So wrote Michael Poland, a geophysicist with the US ...

Analysis of the entire genome of a 14,400-year-old woolly rhinoceros ( Coelodonta antiquitatis ), recovered from the stomach ...

I n August 1939, just a few weeks before the outbreak of the Second World War, a scattering of ivory mammoth fragments was ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Tom ...

Following the eruption, one team had an idea to help recover from the devastation: send gophers on a day trip.

Brazil has the “world’s richest genetic diversity”, and some of its residents may reap the longevity benefits.

S even naturally preserved mummified cheetahs have been discovered in a cave in Saudi Arabia. The contents of these caves, ...

Ostriches are the largest living birds, and red-necked ostriches are especially big, capable of growing to around 2.8 meters ...

“The ocean, especially in shallow and rocky areas where the rockhead poacher lives, is unbelievably loud and acoustically ...

This charismatic ball of geology is aptly known as Giant Rock. Covering square meters (5,800 square feet) of ground and ...

"Recent studies suggest that the lunar farside experienced a magma ocean evolution similar to that of the nearside," the team ...