One of the ten largest earthquakes ever recorded just struck Kamchatka, the sparsely populated Russian peninsula facing the Pacific.

A build-up of meltwater under the Greenland ice sheet in 2014 resulted in a flood of such magnitude that it burst upward ...

An ice core sample from the European Alps has been the first to be dated to the last Ice Age, providing vital historical ...

British researchers have discovered a rare handprint on a 4,000-year-old  Egyptian artefact, a Cambridge museum said on ...

A snake so small it could be mistaken for a worm has been spotted in Barbados, nearly two decades after it was thought to ...

Roughly 76 million years ago, a herd of herbivorous dinosaurs left a trail of footprints that reveals different species may ...

Aspen forest is reclaiming the skyline of Yellowstone National Park after decades of controversy over efforts to return ...

When a pregnant woman had her blood sampled back in 1972, doctors discovered it was mysteriously missing a surface molecule ...

These tiny power generators cause a kind of metabolic overload in sleep-regulating neurons, the researchers suggest, which in ...