The slightly warmer temperatures around the middle of the Earth melted the top layers of ice to form meltwater ponds that hovered around 0°C. This stable, warmer temperature could have served as a ...

GIST Impact, a leading provider of impact and risk data and analytics, and the Natural History Museum today announced a new collaboration to integrate the Biodiversity Intactness Index (BII) - a ...

A small dinosaur that once dashed along North American riverbanks has found a new home in London. The new species, named ...

This seems to have solved the mystery of how the starfish got its arms. But it doesn’t necessarily answer the ‘why’. Imran ...

Ophiocordyceps are named because they infect the brain of their hosts to then manipulate the ant’s behaviour. Zombie-ant ...

Garden snails and aphids are venomous animals. This is the startling outcome of a new study that argues for a radical shift ...

Early pterosaurs loved temperate and humid habitats – and it might explain why their fossils are hard to find today.

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Academic. Senior Lecturer, University of Brighton, School of Environment and Technology, United Kingdom, 2016 - 2018 Imperial College Research Fellow, Imperial College London, Department of Earth ...

A new species of dinosaur, Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae, a two-legged herbivore from the famous Morrison Formation in the USA, has been officially recognised by science – and from Thursday 26 June is ...

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The Cretaceous Period lasted for nearly 80 million years. Discover what the climate was like in this geological period, where the continents were and what animals and plants lived on them. Find out ...