New 3D computer simulations from ETH Zurich show that young rift flanks on Venus stay tall and steep, while older ones ...

A new genus and species of cryptobranchid salamander that lived in lakes in Japan about 3.5 million years ago has been ...

Paleontologists have unearthed a remarkably preserved fossil snake in Brazil that is reshaping ideas about how the earliest ...

A new review of previous studies in the journal Appetite undercuts the popular belief that water fills you up at the table.

Planetary researchers have found the first evidence that bursts of energetic particles from the Sun could warm the lower ...

Paleontologists in India have unearthed a partial skeleton of a diminutive, previously unknown neosauropod dinosaur from the ...

Liopleurodon ferox is a short-necked marine reptile that patrolled the seas of what is now England and France some 163 ...

Thousands of fossilized bones from a Cretaceous-period bonebed in Wyoming, the United States, offer rare physical evidence ...

A new genus and species of lambeosaurine hadrosaurid dinosaur has been identified in southern Alberta, Canada, dating back 77 ...

A new analysis of data from the Western Australian-based Raine Study suggests that two humble vegetable groups -- legumes and ...

New research from Columbia University found that adults who cut their sleep by about 80 minutes for six weeks packed on a ...