A mere 90 million years ago, ... London came across some convincing evidence of this back in 2020 when they drilled a core sample in West Antarctica around 900 kilometers ...

Earth may have had a ring system that came into existence around 466 million years ago, a new study has suggested. This was the period when our planet was bombarded with unusually intense ...

Squids first appeared about 100 million years ago and quickly rose to become dominant predators in the ancient oceans, according to a study published in the journal Science.

Astronomers have found a pair of quasars in the process of merging during the final periods of Cosmic Dawn, around 900 million years after the Big Bang. This is the most distant (and so, earliest ...

Earth was a hothouse 201 million years ago. ... methane and other greenhouse gases were to reach atmospheric concentrations so high (probably around 30,000 parts per million) ...

"The first mosasaurs appeared around 95 to 100 million years ago. They were small animals, about the size of an iguana, and were non-specialized marine lizards." ...

The emergence of the first land-dwelling animals is estimated to have occurred around 400 million years ago. Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent.

When humans began farming crops thousands of years ago, agriculture had already been around for millions of years. In fact, several animal lineages have been growing their own food since long before ...

The findings come from a study of bone tools discovered at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania and dated to around 1.5 million years ago. The discovery joins other finds — such as a 1.4-million-year-old ...