Biologists in the U.S. have found that air loops through the lungs of alligators in one direction, just as it does in the lungs of birds. Researcher C.G. Farmer of the University of Utah and her ...

The asteroid that smacked into our planet about 66 million years ago at the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K/Pg) boundary may have been bad news for dinosaurs, but it was good news for fungi. According to new ...

Mega ocean warming El Nino events were key in driving the largest extinction of life on planet Earth some 252 million years ago, according to new research. The study has shed new light on why the ...

The ancient past is remembered mostly for its diversity of dinosaurs, but before dinosaurs, insects ruled the world and they ...

A newly discovered ancient crocodile cousin from a 210-million-year-old Triassic crocodile fossil reveals a powerful ...

Learn about the new estimate for the emergence of dinosaurs, which may have occurred 250 million to 240 million years ago.

For years, a slab of sandstone sat cemented into a retaining wall in a suburban Sydney garden, unremarkable to anyone walking ...

For more than a decade, the Permian Basin has been an engine driving American energy production. It has powered record output, supported thousands of jobs and helped position the U.S. as one of the ...

A badly mangled dinosaur skull, once forgotten in a drawer, turned out to be a rare and important discovery. Reconstructed by a Virginia Tech student, it revealed a new species of early carnivorous ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

During the Triassic around 205 million years ago, a newly-identified relative of modern crocodiles stalked its prey, but not in the water, a new study finds. Like other ancient crocodile cousins, this ...