Ancient Bronze Age canoe has been unearthed by archaeologists during the building of a...
Archaeological work on a North Wales bypass has revealed a large burnt mound around 3500 years old with 3 troughs beneath, one possibly being...
Wild geese take climate action
Migratory animals are actively adjusting their traditions to climate change, new research has found.
An international team of researchers from the University of St Andrews, with...
Scientists uncover world’s oldest forest
Scientists have discovered remnants of the world’s oldest fossil forest in a sandstone quarry in Cairo, New York.
It is believed the extensive network of...
Seabird nests are full of plastic debris researchers find
Researchers have found that plastic debris is incorporated in up to 80% of seabird nests.
For the first time, it has now been identified where...
New study reveals how reptiles divided up the spoils in ancient seas
While dinosaurs ruled the land in the Mesozoic, the oceans were filled by predators such as crocodiles and giant lizards, but also entirely extinct...
The Atlantic ocean is getting wider-Here’s why
An upsurge of matter from deep beneath the Earth’s crust could be pushing the continents of North and South America further apart from Europe...
Mystery behind the “Great Dimming” of the Betelgeuse star solved
The quest to discover what lay behind the “great dimming” of the aging star Betelgeuse, normally one of the brightest stars on the night...
Why did the mammoths disappear?
Woolly mammoths roamed the earth for millions of years and vanished for good only 4,000 years ago.
The hairy cousins of today’s elephants lived alongside...
Scientists discover ancient earthquake, as powerful as the biggest ever recorded
A new study has discovered that an ancient super-earthquake took place in Northern Chile, on the same scale as the largest recorded quake in...
History has seen Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier retreat even more quickly than it is today,...
Scientists mapped in high-resolution a critical area of the seafloor in front of the glacier that gives them a window into how fast Thwaites...