Paleontologists in China found pellets of undigested food — just like ones owls leave behind — preserved with pterosaur fossils.

Tiny seashells draw carbon to the ocean floor when they die. This is the most significant geological process of carbon storage today, and it might increase in a warmer world, as it did in the past.

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Substituting one food for another – no matter the reason – may not result in a healthier choice.

Species go extinct twice – one time when the last individual stops breathing, and a second time when the collective memory about the species disappears. [adapted from a quote attributed to both Banksy and Irvin Yalom] New research involving researchers from…

Fame is nice, but it isn't everything. Here are 5 top celebrity problems, as well as 5 benefits of fame.

Thank the 'engineering kings' of ancient Egypt for this geographical heartthrob.

Recent discoveries of horizontal gene transfer reveal that animals and plants are swapping genes across different species - but how do they do it and what might it mean for evolution?

Just before the closing scenes of the Cretaceous Period, India was a rogue subcontinent on a collision course with Asia. Before the two landmasses merged, however, India rafted over a "hot spot" within ...

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Archaeologists have uncovered the largest collection of ancient Egyptian 'notepads' found since the beginning of the 20th century.

Mr Oh, who is now 79, lived in a makeshift shelter in woodland in the city-state of Singapore.

A new description of two well-preserved ancient fossil plant specimens in Washington state is prompting paleobotanists to rethink how plants might have been dispersed during the Late Cretaceous, between ...

Photosynthesis quite literally changed our world. Plants 'eating' sunlight and 'breathing out' oxygen transformed Earth's entire atmosphere into the one we now breathe, and fuel our ecosystems with energy.

Nowadays, glass is something that most of us take for granted, there’s not many places we can go where it can’t ...

Machines that can mate and produce offspring can help us clean up nuclear sites, explore asteroids and terraform distant planets – but could they prove a threat, asks Emma Hart, who is helping develop them

A new study reveals brain oscillations associated with memory retrieval alter in the moments before death, suggesting the brain may replay significant life events just before we die.

Controlling access to fragile areas of natural beauty is not as simple as it sounds