In a quiet part of what is now South Australia, more than half a billion years ago, life was locked in battle. The ocean ...

Have you ever wondered what the world looked like millions of years ago? Imagine walking in a place where every rock could ...

For years, a mysterious fossil specimen defied categorization, until one paleontologist made a surprising discovery.

Horatio Alger is the largest needs-based scholarship organization in the United States. This year, it will award $17.4 million for higher education, military or technical training to disadvantaged U.S ...

Focused on Cambrian fossils, the study reanimates a species long trapped in the pages of forgotten paleontology.

Fossilized footprints and tracks dating back 50 million years ago discovered at the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument ...

Fast forward some 73 million years to the end of the next geologic period (the Ordovician), and ... “Remarkably her insides are a mineralised time-capsule: muscles, sinews, tendons and even ...

While a short period could be an early sign of pregnancy ... for the first few years after they start menstruating. Another time when periods may become irregular is during perimenopause.

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