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

Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of ancient gecko found in two pieces of amber from the 99-million-year-old (mid-Cretaceous) amber deposits in Kachin province, Myanmar. One of ...

In a new review paper, Dr. Gregory Marcus from the University of California, San Francisco and colleagues analyzed decades of research on how caffeine — most often consumed as coffee — affects the ...

Carbonaceous chondrites make up only 5% of meteorites so far sampled on Earth. CO chondrites make up a tiny fraction of that group. They are some of the most primitive and untouched materials in the ...

Paleontologists in China have discovered what they say is the earliest confirmed pieces of amber ever found, a fossilized resin roughly 385 million years old (Middle Devonian epoch) that predates the ...

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

New research indicates that Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, may continue to lose rotational energy despite the pair’s ...

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

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

Paleontologists in Uruguay have identified a new species of aeolosaurine titanosaur from a pair of remarkably well-preserved tailbones unearthed in the 1980s near the Uruguay River.

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