Jurassic pliosaur 'megapredator' was a giant 'sea murderer'
The earliest pliosaur 'megapredator' helped rule the oceans 170 million years ago during the age of dinosaurs.
The earliest pliosaur 'megapredator' helped rule the oceans 170 million years ago during the age of dinosaurs.
A new analysis of zircon crystals from the Apollo 17 mission has revealed that the moon formed around 40 million years earlier than past geological evidence suggested. However, our cosmic companion may be even older than that.
Harmful gases from wildfire smoke can hang around in the walls and floors of your home for weeks. Thankfully, cleaning helps.
The extra legs caterpillars have appear have origins in the primitive crustaceans that insects evolved from during the Ordovician period over 400 million years ago.
New observations with the James Webb Space Telescope reveal a never-before-seen jet stream near Jupiter's equator moving twice as fast as a Category 5 hurricane.
Ancient caves mark the beginning of recorded burial rituals, but there's still so much we don't know about the history of human graves.
Oct. 22, 2023: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.
Jupiter's moon Io, the most volcanic world in the solar system, was imaged from just 7,260 miles away.
Orcas have their own dialect, greeting ceremonies and even wore salmon as hats in a weird fad during the 1980s.
From sinking boats and feasting on shark livers to dining on whale tongue and tossing porpoises around for fun, orcas are displaying some fascinating — and sometimes terrifying — behaviors.
Very few gems can withstand the intense pressure of Earth's mantle, but some require it to crystallize.
A tattoo referencing Christ was found on the 1,300-year-old body of an individual in what is now Sudan.
Researchers used DNA analysis and traditional knowledge to learn about an orca named Old Tom and his family's remarkable relationship with humans.
These weird-looking stocky mammals roam Alpine zones and forested valleys in Asia, using their specially adapted split hooves help them traverse the steep, rocky terrain.
Experts across public health, microbiology and biochemistry agree that we'll still have antibiotics in 50 years, but the drugs may take a different form than those we have today.
The leading group is so diverse that it represents one in every three animal species on Earth.
Aurora records in royal chronicles from Korea show that during the 'Maunder Minimum' between 1645 and 1715, the sun's solar cycles became several years shorter than they are today.
The gold and platinum that came from giant space rocks should have sunk into Earth's core instead of rising to the crust. Scientists have now worked out how this happened — and it may explain some really weird blobs deep in our planet's mantle.
Scientists have performed a necropsy on a great white shark that washed up in Nova Scotia — the fifth unexplained stranding of its kind in a year — but were unable to determine the cause of death.