Artist's rendition of of Nyasasaurus, one of the oldest definitive dinosaurs. The earliest known dinosaur fossils date back to approximately 230 million years ago. Recent research suggests that ...

Paleontologists have known something strange happened between the end of the Triassic Period and the beginning of the Jurassic for the better part of a century. In the latest days of the Triassic ...

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Earth’s continents are constantly shifting. About 252 to 199 million years ago, all the continents were actually one huge “supercontinent” surrounded by one enormous ocean. Slowly, this ...

SPAIN’S most famous explorer Christopher Columbus was actually Scottish, claims a controversial historian. The 15th century discoverer of the New World heralded from Scotland, and adoped his ...