The coal was formed in swamps that existed due to the hot, humid and very wet climate. The limestone was formed first, in ...

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Antarctica sits above the strongest negative gravity anomaly on Earth, a region where the planet’s gravitational pull dips so ...

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Before whales, great whites, or the bus-sized megalodon prowled the seas, a colossal shark was already ruling Cretaceous waters off what’s now northern Australia. New research on a handful of ...

A remarkable fossil discovery in New South Wales has forced scientists to rethink the origins of a group of freshwater insects. The fossil, a 151-million-year-old non-biting midge, is the oldest ever ...

A monstrous shark, predating whales, great whites, or even the bus-sized megalodon, once prowled the waters off what is now northern Australia during the Cretaceous period. Researchers, studying huge ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — In the age of dinosaurs — before whales, great whites or the bus-sized megalodon — a monstrous shark prowled the waters off what's now northern Australia, among the sea ...

Scientists have identified a new species of non-biting midge from 151-million-year-old specimens discovered by an amateur fossil hunter. Credit: Louise Reily / Australian Museum An 82-year-old man ...

Two small upper jaws pulled from Morocco’s phosphate mines reveal a new duck-billed dinosaur, Taleta taleta, that lived about 66 million years ago. The find is formally described in a peer-reviewed ...