Dinosaurs and other beasts were once thought to be the “undisputed masters” of Venus.
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Climate and ecological changes, as well as disruptions to the food chain, were already killing off the dinosaurs.
Is there a force keeping humanity in check?
Although mammals may be the dominant form of life today, we’re relative newcomers on planet Earth. Here’s our place in natural history.
People discovered prehistoric fossils long before Charles Darwin published “On the Origin of Species.” The remains of these unknown creatures often puzzled their discoverers.
AI helped create films like “Jurassic Park” and “A.I.”, so Steven Spielberg and other artists shouldn’t worry about losing their jobs.
Meet your new flying nightmare: Thapunngaka shawi.
Only humans can voluntarily conjure new objects and events in our minds.
Despite billions of years of life on Earth, humans first arose only ~300,000 years ago. It took all that time to make our arrival possible.
New research finds that dinosaurs were already adapted to living in cold climates before the end-Triassic mass extinction. But how?
The long-standing debate over whether dinosaurs were more like birds or lizards is drawing to a close.
Predatory dinosaurs with big skulls tend to have tiny arms. Researchers propose there might be a direct link between those traits.
The spikes in their mouths would have helped them catch squid or fish.
65 million years ago, a massive asteroid struck Earth. Not only did Jupiter not stop it, but it probably caused the impact itself.
Mammals have a history stretching back 325 million years. To study that ancient history is to know our own origins.
See the world through the eyes of a horse — or a cake pan.
Evolution repeatedly hit upon this solution simply because it works.
Many impact craters on Earth have been erased thanks to wind, water, and plate tectonics. But scientists have clever ways to find them.
Was there an intelligent, technologically advanced species long before humans existed? Could there have been a dinosaur civilization?
In pre-War Cambridge, students had to ace an interview with Ludwig Wittgenstein to attend his lectures — Alan Turing passed that test, and went on to create one of his own.
Video games matter. Their continued technological and artistic development is reshaping the way we satisfy our ancient need to tell stories.
About 150 million years ago, a long-necked sauropod came down with a respiratory infection. The rest is history…or is it?
A marine reptile fossil from Svalbard challenges ideas about evolution and Earth’s greatest mass extinction.
You are trapped in time. You never live in the world as it is but only as you experience it as it was.
Aliens are often portrayed in popular culture as humanoid. But in reality, intelligent extraterrestrials might take far stranger forms.
Smarter building materials can control indoor temperatures without external power.
In 2020, scientists took more than a kilo of moon rock and soil back to Earth for testing.