A live recreation of the Ngamugawi wirngarri coelacanth in its natural habitat. Palaeoart illustration Katrina KennyClimate change and asteroids are ...

Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction -- and plate tectonics also seems to play a key evolutionary role, 'groundbreaking' new fossil research reveals. The discovery ...

Today, the living coelacanth Latimeria (Sarcopterygii: Actinistia) is an iconic, so-called ‘living fossil’ within one of the ...

The magnitude-5 earthquake, which left one dead and over 80 injured, damaged hundreds of houses with a loss of 385 billion ...

A GROUNDBREAKING new model shows how present-day countries formed as land rearranged itself nearly 2 billion years ago. The scientific theory of plate tectonics strives to explain how mountains, ...

From across the globe, these are some of the strangest places to live. From villages where the buildings are underground to a ...

The fears of the people of the Levant that one day the earth will give way beneath their feet are well-founded and the region ...

The gemstone market value is $23bn and growing, as investors increasingly look to precious stone alternatives to the ...

For a few months, I stayed with my aunt’s friend in Midtown, back when she could still afford to live there. Now it’s filled ...

British biologist and naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace gives his name to the Wallace Line ... which marks the place where the ...

Here is the famous Steppe, the dry grass-land, the never-ending plain stretching across Eurasia from China to Hungary. Rainfall is too limited for trees to grow. The climate is harsh, with hot ...