Researchers uncovered one vertebra, and based on its size, they estimate the massive creature was at least 30 feet long when ...

Scientists have discovered a planet that is literally falling apart as it orbits its star. Located about 140 light-years from Earth in the Pegasus constellation , this doomed world named BD+05 ...

A rare and dramatic scene unfolds 140 light-years from Earth. A rocky planet, once whole, is now crumbling to dust under the brutal heat of its host star. The planet, labeled BD+05 4868 Ab ...

Discovered in 1930, Pluto was the ninth planet for over 75 years, orbiting at the chilly fringes of our solar neighborhood. But then scientists at the International Astronomical Union decided ...

Prehistoric cats were some of the most formidable predators to ever roam the Earth. Proailurus is regarded as the common ancestor of all modern felines. Their physique was similar to that of a ...

On a planet of 70% water, raising 90-plus billion farmed animals is moral illness since the requirement for animal protein is zero, while the cost of diagnosing and treating the multiple ...

Mike Brown is convinced that beyond Neptune, at the far reaches of our solar system, there's an unseen giant planet. "This is the 5th largest planet in our solar system, lurking out there ...

Fossil evidence reveals that sebecids, giant crocodile-like creatures believed to have vanished 11 million years ago, actually survived much later. Paleontologists unearthed fossils in the ...

The remains of a prehistoric chariot wheel have been discovered at the site of a new Highland golf course. Archaeologists made the find in a pit used for cremations thousands of years ago.

Happy Earth Day! For the 55th year, the world is using the day to celebrate Mother Nature and the wonderful planet we live on. "Earth Day really is a symbol of the environmental movement," Sarah ...

Giant prehistoric kangaroos perished when "climate upheaval" turned lush Australian rainforest into desert, scientists said Thursday after studying ancient fossils with new techniques. Weighing as ...

Imagine a crocodile built like a greyhound — that’s a sebecid. Standing tall, with some species reaching 20 feet in length, sebecids were top predators until they went extinct during the Miocene.