The 'Tolkienesque' landscape is made up of 26 underwater volcanoes buried beneath seabed sediment.
A fascinating discovery has called in to question everything we know about the evolution of butterflies.
The ridiculously long number, like all prime numbers, can only be divided by either itself or by one.
Experts have been left perplexed by the unexplained deaths of millions of kangaroos in Australia.
Pennsylvania resident Mary Horomanski couldn't believe what she was reading when she received the bill.
Dating back 150 million years, this prehistoric reptile is the oldest creature ever found in the region.
Scientists have identified a diverse group of organisms within fossils dating back 3.45 billion years.
Discovered in Western Australia, the fossil microbes are the oldest evidence of life ever identified.
The mystery of who paid $450 million for Leonardo da Vinci's 'Salvator Mundi' has now been solved.
The new galaxies date back 13 billion years to a time shortly after the formation of the universe.
The lake has been described as 'a chunk of Mars [that] has somehow broken off and travelled 33 million miles'.
Scientists exploring Antarctica have found fossils from a forest dating back over 260 million years.
Considered to be a 'living fossil', the frilled shark has remained unchanged for over 80 million years.
Yuri Milner is looking to send a spacecraft to Enceladus to look for evidence of extraterrestrial life.
Palaeontologists have unearthed the fossil remains of an 18ft sea monster dating back to the Jurassic Era.
The remarkable agricultural breakthrough could help to feed millions of people over the coming decades.
Palaeontologists have unearthed the skeleton of a meat-eating dinosaur dating back over 76 million years.
The surprising find has the potential to completely rewrite everything we know of early human history.
A prehistoric species of bird that preened itself like a flamingo has been discovered in Germany.
An extinct species of fanged kangaroo survived five million years longer than previously believed.