Global oil inventories are declining while China's oil imports rise, leading to potential surge in oil prices due to low ...

Organism gives sea its distinctive smell and promotes creation of clouds, thereby playing a significant role in global ...

Upwellings of cold, nutrient-rich water feed these huge algal blooms, contaminating the fish and shellfish that chow down on these toxic diatoms. In turn ... Researchers found a treasure trove of ...

As the planet warms and global population grows, a looming food crisis is spurring biochemists to reengineer one of the most ...

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The fossil has been identified as a new silesaurid, an extinct group of reptiles. Paleontologists debate whether silesaurids were true dinosaurs or possibly a precursor to the creatures that once ...

The identification of part of the fossilized remains of a so-called "terror bird" species in South America has given researchers new insight into the apex predators ...

The end of a terror bird’s left tibiotarsus, a lower leg bone in birds equivalent to that of a human tibia or shin bone, dates back to the Miocene epoch around 12 ...

A FLESH-EATING bird has been uncovered after nearly 12 million years in a Colombian desert. Scientists revealed this extinct “Terror Bird” was the largest of its ...

Researchers including a Johns Hopkins University evolutionary biologist report they have analyzed a fossil of an extinct giant meat-eating bird—which they say could be the largest known member of its ...

They don't look alike, and they aren't biologically related, but part of their evolutionary history bears a striking resemblance: these organisms are referred to as "living fossils". In other ...