Last Updated: Monday, January 6, 2014, 18:24
Researchers have discovered a 100-million-year old piece of amber which reveals the oldest evidence of sexual reproduction in a flowering plant- a cluster of 18 tiny flowers from the Cretaceous Period.
Last Updated: Monday, January 6, 2014, 18:21
Researchers recently discovered four ancient Ectobius species in the 49-million-year-old Green River Formation near Rifle, Colorado in deposits that are about five million years older than the Baltic amber.
Last Updated: Monday, January 6, 2014, 12:20
The climate in the UK has warmed over the last forty years, and many species, including butterflies, have shifted their distributions northwards, a new study has found.
Last Updated: Monday, January 6, 2014, 11:36
Researchers have suggested that the risk of eruption of a "supervolcano", hundreds times more powerful than conventional volcanoes -have potential to wipe out civilization - is more likely than believed earlier.
Last Updated: Sunday, January 5, 2014, 13:09
A new study has documented dramatic, natural short-term increases in the acidity of a North Carolina estuary.
Last Updated: Friday, January 3, 2014, 19:42
The floating ice shelf at the tip of Pine Island Glacier, one of the biggest routes for ice to flow from Antarctica into the sea, has been melting and thinning for the past four decades causing the glacier to speed up and discharge more ice, researchers say.
Last Updated: Friday, January 3, 2014, 12:47
As the northeast US, including New York City, prepared for heavy snow and frigid temperatures, Canada recorded temperatures colder than Mars, it has been revealed.
Last Updated: Thursday, January 2, 2014, 17:47
A recent underwater volcanic eruption in the Pacific Ocean has created an island in the shape of Snoopy, the fictional character created by Charles M Schulz.
Last Updated: Thursday, January 2, 2014, 16:36
Scientists have discovered how plants use steroid hormones to choose growth over defending themselves against pathogens.
Last Updated: Wednesday, January 1, 2014, 18:47
Three tiger cubs have been sighted in Ranthambore national park in Rajasthan`s Sawaimadhopur district.
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