“African dinosaur fossils are underrepresented as a result of undersampling compared to other areas of the world,” Kimi says.

The new dinosaur is only the fourth ever named from Zimbabwe ...

Instead, research into the world’s botanical life has revealed that a quarter of all flowering plant species are found in ...

Fossils of the new species, now called Radnorscolex latus, were found in an old quarry in Herefordshire and date to around ...

But their current diversity is just a snapshot of the species that used to exist. A new study has now explored the ...

New research suggests that the Sun’s magnetic field is generated near to the surface, challenging theories that it came deep ...

Following the Hollywood treatment worms received in the blockbuster franchise Dune this year, the evolutionary history of an ...

The numbers of more well-known species like the swift, swallow and house martin have also declined significantly. While ...

The first animal communities could have had a big impact on how complex life evolved over 550 million years ago. These early marine ecosystems are thought to have affected the distribution of ...

Scientists have shown how Earth's earliest animal communities from ~560 million years ago were capable of impacting the seawater around them, acting like modern day coral reefs. Ancient marine animal ...