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It’s not often a new mass extinction is identified; after all, such events were so devastating they really stand out in the fossil record. In a new paper, published today in Science Advances, an international team has identified a major extinction of life 233 million years ago that triggered the dinosaur takeover of the world. The crisis has been called the Carnian Pluvial Episode.
Read moreAncient DNA shows domestic horses were introduced in the southern Caucasus and Anatolia during the Bronze Age
Read moreAn international collaboration between researchers at Queen Mary University of London and the Chinese Academy of Science in Nanjing has
Read moreIn the popular imagination, Vikings were fearsome blonde-haired warriors from Scandinavia who used longboats to carry out raids across Europe
Read moreInvaders, pirates, warriors – the history books taught us that Vikings were brutal predators who travelled by sea from Scandinavia to pillage and raid their way across Europe and beyond
Read moreThe California Channel Islands are renowned for their archaeological, biological and paleontological significance and richness, containing some of the most
Read moreResearchers at McMaster University have developed a new technique to tease ancient DNA from soil, pulling the genomes of hundreds
Read moreThe Ob, Yenisei, and Lena rivers flow into the Kara and Laptev seas and account for about half of the
Read moreBased on extensive data analysis, an international team publishes global reference curve in the journal Science
Read moreScientists have long debated the respiratory workings of sea scorpions, but a new discovery by a West Virginia University geologist
Read moreResearchers at the Universities of Bonn and Opole examined bones of the puzzling Panthasaurus maleriensis
Read moreSharks’ non-bony skeletons were thought to be the template before bony internal skeletons evolved, but a new fossil discovery suggests
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