By Stephen Beech Antarctic sea life - including the oldest living creatures on the planet - are at risk from increasing number of ships dropping anchor there, warns a new report.

Antarctic sea life - including the oldest living creatures on the planet - are at risk from increasing number of ships dropping anchor there, warns a new report.

Life Penguin poo helps keep Antarctica cool Huge colonies of penguins in Antarctica fill the air with ammonia, which boosts particles in the atmosphere that allow climate-cooling clouds to form By ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The common ancestor of all tetrapods (including humans) was previously thought to have emerged at the dawn of the Carboniferous period ...

Marcin Ambrozik Scientists in Australia have identified the earliest known tracks of a reptile-like animal, suggesting these creatures walked the Earth millions of years longer than thought.

Our new discovery, published today in Nature, details ancient fossil footprints found in Australia that upend the early ...

The latest findings suggest that amniotes also existed in the early Carboniferous period, around 355 million years ago.

Fossil records of crown-group amniotes – the group that includes mammals, birds and reptiles – begin in the Late Carboniferous period (about 318 million years old), while previously the ...

A new study finds Antarctica gained mass for the first time in decades, reversing previous loss trends and briefly offsetting global sea level rise.

Now, scientists are turning cockroaches into super-powered cyborgs for a pretty cool reason. The cockroach's anatomy makes them the perfect candidate for this experiment, which, if successful, could ...