A newly discovered reptile has led scientists “back to the drawing board” on feather evolution. Although existing 70 million ...

A team of researchers has identified and described Vulcanoscaptor ninoti ("the Camp dels Ninots volcano digger"), a ...

Researchers have discovered a new genus and species of prehistoric mole in Spain. Vulcanoscaptor ninoti lived during the ...

Some of Scotland’s most iconic islands were born from a network of erupting fissures, just like those found in Hawaii and ...

A discovery similar to “finding a needle in a haystack” has confirmed that Scotland's volcanic landscape once rivalled the ...

A fossil being studied at the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology reminds scientists of a mythical ...

Archeologists in China have discovered two perfectly preserved fossils of a new 125 million-year-old dinosaur species. The new species of burrowing dinosaur was discovered in the Lujiatun Beds ...

Archeologists in China have discovered two perfectly preserved fossils of a new 125 million-year-old dinosaur species.

"It is possible that a planet once existed in the solar system but was later ejected, causing the unusual orbits we see today ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS once discovered a "mass grave" buried under the volcanic ash from an eruption some 1,000 miles away, containing the remains of more than 200 animals.

Fossilized feathers discovered 136 years ago are still revealing new secrets. Researchers found that the volcanic rock preserving the feather holds microscopic details preserved within the fossil ...