A budding palaeontologist has dug up fossils in his garden dating back 140 million years. Elliott, seven, moved into his new ...

A seven-year-old boy has unearthed fossils dating back 140 million years in his garden in Matlock, Derbyshire. Elliott, who ...

A 113-million-year-old hell ant that once lived in northeastern Brazil is now the oldest ant specimen known to science, finds a report published in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on April 24.

This week, a string of archaeological studies lend insight into Roman gladiators, an ancient crocodile-like beast, and a ...

Massive kangaroos which roamed Australia more than 40,000 years ago likely became extinct because they were “homebodies” and ...

One of my first stops was the Victorian seaside town of Penarth, on the outskirts of Cardiff. My nan would bring me here to see the murky grey “sea” of the Severn estuary when I was a little boy.

An almost overlooked fossil discovered in a Brazilian museum collection has revealed the oldest ant specimen known ...

A seven-year-old boy in Derbyshire unearthed 140-million-year-old Jurassic fossils in his backyard, a discovery that has ...

On Earth, volcanoes spew carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, and the gas is absorbed by surface waters — mainly the ocean — and combines with elements such as calcium to form limestone rock.

Researchers use the sophisticated technology on NASA's Perseverance rover to analyze volcanic rocks in Mars' Jezero Crater. Their findings show that some of the same volcanic processes that led to ...