Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of ancient gecko found in two pieces of amber from the 99-million-year-old (mid-Cretaceous) amber deposits in Kachin province, Myanmar. One of ...

Thousands of fossilized bones from a Cretaceous-period bonebed in Wyoming, the United States, offer rare physical evidence ...

A new analysis of data from the Western Australian-based Raine Study suggests that two humble vegetable groups -- legumes and ...

Paleontologists working in northeastern Thailand have identified a new species of mamenchisaurid sauropod dinosaur, offering ...

A new genus and species of lambeosaurine hadrosaurid dinosaur has been identified in southern Alberta, Canada, dating back 77 ...

Paleontologists in China have discovered what they say is the earliest confirmed pieces of amber ever found, a fossilized resin roughly 385 million years old (Middle Devonian epoch) that predates the ...

New research from Columbia University found that adults who cut their sleep by about 80 minutes for six weeks packed on a ...

New research indicates that Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, may continue to lose rotational energy despite the pair’s ...

Spriggina floundersi, a marine species that lived during the Ediacaran period 550 million years ago, is one of Earth’s earliest bilaterally symmetrical animals.

On July 5, 2026, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hayabusa-2 spacecraft completed the first asteroid encounter of its ...

People who naturally stay up late may be more prone to obesity and poorer metabolic health in part because they consume more ...