The planet "splashed down" into the star, sending a giant plume of gas into space that gave the star a ring. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been studying the scene of a dramatic ...

Like T. rex and some modern sloths, this strange 90 million year old dinosaur had two fingers on each hand. An illustration shows what Duonychus tsogtbaatari might have looked like. Unlike its ...

TikTok's latest nutrition hack speaks to our inner dinosaur kid. In a March TikTok with over 300K likes, creator @sahmthingsup introduced the world to what she calls "dinosaur time" . . . all ...

We showed that despite covering only 2.4% of the planet’s land surface, freshwater habitats host over a third of these fascinating animals. We inevitably missed some studied species in our searches.

Five families of orcas joined forces to hunt down and feed on a blue whale, the largest creature on the planet, in what was an extremely rare sighting off Australia. More than 60 orcas worked ...

The World’s Largest Dinosaur, Tyra, is headed for extinction, the Drumheller and District Chamber of Commerce announced Thursday morning. Officials say the decision to close the town attraction ...

“While we don’t know exactly what the dinosaur that made Ruopodosaurus footprints looked like, we know that it would have been about 5-6 metres long [16 to over 19 feet long], spiky and ...

A "dinosaur-killing" impact from a rock perhaps a half-mile across or larger happens on 100-million-year timescales. Mark is an award-winning journalist and the science editor at Mashable.

With distinctive two-fingered claws, the remains of a previously unknown species of dinosaur suggest it looked like a bizarre mix of sloth, giraffe and cult movie hero Edward Scissorhands ...

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