Until now, Antarctica was the only continent on Earth without any known amber fossils. But sediment cores taken from below the seafloor have revealed a tiny piece of fossilized resin holding fragments ...

Beneath the snowy slopes lay a prehistoric surprise: an ecosystem that predates the dinosaurs, revealed by melting snow ...

T he fossilized remains of an entire prehistoric ecosystem, complete with footprints of extinct animals, have been discovered ...

Around 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs were killed by an enormous asteroid that hit what is today Chicxulub, Mexico. But a second asteroid struck during that same era at the Nadir crater off ...

There are plenty of fun facts about Italy. It's one of Europe's most visited countries. The history's long. The culture's rich. And the food's delectable. But what do you actually know? Here are our ...

Patti Lanier Bludau is a Brazoria County native and resident of Angleton. Her column appears each weekend and Wednesday in The Facts. Contact her at [email protected].

The S2 meteorite — about 200 times larger than the Chicxulub asteroid that doomed the dinosaurs — stirred the proverbial pot, triggering a tsunami that dispersed land debris into coastal regions. The ...

HONG KONG, Oct 25 (Reuters) - The first dinosaur fossils found in Hong Kong, likely from a large dinosaur, were put on display on Friday after they were found on a small, uninhabited outlying ...