Last Updated: Saturday, May 25, 2013, 12:24
Researchers from the US and Australia have claimed that they can now use fossil teeth to calculate when a Neanderthal baby was weaned.
Last Updated: Sunday, December 16, 2012, 16:08
A humble microbe, instead of a devastating meteorite or a catastrophic volcanic eruption, wiped off over 90 percent of the species on Earth 251-million-years ago.
Last Updated: Thursday, November 22, 2012, 16:07
Researchers have identified the skull of a rhino that perished in a volcanic eruption about 9.2 million years ago, making it a rare find as less than two percent of such fossils are preserved.
Last Updated: Tuesday, November 20, 2012, 18:08
According to NASA, the Sun erupted with two prominence eruptions, one after the other over a four-hour period on Nov. 16, 2012, between the hours of 1 and 5 a.m. EST.
Mutilated dolphins, some with gunshot wounds, tails cut off and missing jaws have recently been discovered along the Gulf Coast of the US.
Last Updated: Tuesday, July 24, 2012, 19:55
A new study has revealed that modern humans were probably a greater threat to the Neanderthals than major natural events like extreme cold weather or volcanoes.
Last Updated: Tuesday, July 24, 2012, 17:34
Could the pumice, a light and porous volcanic rock that surges into the ocean once a volcano erupts in Tonga or elsewhere in the south-west Pacific save the Great Barrier Reef?
Last Updated: Friday, February 10, 2012, 19:38
Indonesian volcano Mount Lokon erupted Friday morning followed by a roaring noise and spewing of thick grey ash up to two km, officials said.
Last Updated: Sunday, February 5, 2012, 19:06
About 252 mn years ago, at the end of the Permian period, Earth almost became a lifeless planet.
Last Updated: Monday, December 5, 2011, 10:26
A volcano has erupted in eastern Indonesia, forcing the closure of a nearby airport and blanketing villages with thick ash.
Last Updated: Thursday, October 13, 2011, 17:52
Brooding over rugged moss-covered hills on Iceland`s southern edge, Katla is a much bigger beast than the nearby Eyjafjallajokul volcano.
Last Updated: Saturday, September 17, 2011, 10:15
A volcano in Alaska`s Aleutian Islands has been in an unusual low-level eruption for two months, raising the spectre of an explosive eruption with little warning.
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