It's a beach unlike any other and has just been named among the best in the UK - but you need to keep your wits about you.

Although the West Country is home to some stunning coastline, the Vale of Glamorgan could be the ideal alternative for a ...

Remains of this key transitional species date to a mysterious "black hole" in the fossil record.

What’s in a name? That’s a good question because humans like to name things and then stick them into groups or categories.

Sea level on Earth has been rising and falling ever since there was water on the planet. Scientists were already able to use ...

In a world obsessed with the apocalyptic hellfire of ‘carbon’ and the terror of an imperceptibly warmer climate nowhere near ...

MR. W. S. BISAT'S paper on “The Carboniferous Goniatites of the North of England and their Zones” (Proc. Yorks. Geol. Soc., N.S. vol. 20, 1924, pp. 40-124 and PI. I.-X.) must take rank as one ...

Long before the first dinosaur hatched, Earth's ancient life was already thriving. There were bizarre sea creatures and lumbering plant-eaters that ruled prehistoric landscapes for hundreds of ...

Actinopterygians were still restricted to a few species with similar body shapes. By the immediately succeeding early Carboniferous times, everything had changed. The placoderms were gone, the number ...