Prehistoric Flora & Fauna
An international team of scientists led by researchers from Utrecht University have found the oldest fossil remains of moths and butterflies known to date....
A semi-desert savanna has been inferred for the center of the Iberian Peninsula in the middle Miocene.
After the supercontinent Pangaea separated into the smaller supercontinents of Laurasia and ...
Being diagnosed with cancer doesn’t necessarily carry the same weight as it did a few decades ago, and treatments today have increased the survival rates for many types of the disease dramatically.
The catastrophic asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago may not have been so...
Theory suggests that large animals are disproportionately important to the spread of fertility across the planet
Total darkness lasted two years, and in the absence of sunlight, plants wither when photosynthesis cannot occur.
Planet-wide wildfires killed land-dwelling creatures like dinosaurs after a six-mile asteroid struck the Yucatan peninsula, kicking off one of Earth’s five known mass...
U.S. paleontologists described a new species of angiosperm flower, Tropidogyne pentaptera, found in seven pieces of 99-million-year-old (mid-...
This cycle has been linked to periodic motion of the Sun and planets through the dense mid-plane of our Milky Way Galaxy.