2+ week, 4+ day ago  (365+ words) Tourists and locals have been gathered on the Reunion Island to see lava flowing from a volcano that has been erupting for over a month. On Sunday, lava from the Piton de la Fournaise volcano reached the Indian ocean for…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago  (426+ words) These are the bones of a woolly mammoth with the nickname Myfanwy. They were originally found in 1864, donated to the Natural History Museum and have been on display at the Holyhead Maritime museum since 2006. But for the first time, scientists…...

1+ mon, 20+ hour ago  (977+ words) By comparing tooth wear with modern elephants, researchers estimate the mammoth was about 32 years old when it died A woolly mammoth nicknamed Myfanwy roamed Anglesey 15,000 years ago, radiocarbon dating has revealed. Scientists believe the animal was about 32 years old when…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (58+ words) Coasts: Video playlist'BBC Coastal transportation and deposition This video can not be played Longshore drift transports sand and shingle along the coastline. This video demonstrates how swash and backwash move material in a zigzag motion and how beaches form when…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (77+ words) Coasts: Video playlist'BBC Add subjects, save guides and continue where you left off with your BBC account. Longshore drift transports sediment in a zigzag motion and deposition occurs when waves lose energy. This video explores depositional landforms along the Holderness…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (58+ words) Coasts: Video playlist'BBC This video can not be played The Holderness coast in northeast England is one of the fastest eroding coastlines in Europe. Factors like geology and human activity affect rates of erosion. This video explains how hydraulic action,…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (63+ words) Coasts: Video playlist'BBC This video can not be played This video explains how geology affects rates of coastal erosion. Headlands made of resistant rock, like chalk at Flamborough Head, are gradually shaped into caves, arches and stacks. Weaker rocks, such…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (569+ words) An artist's impression shows a small Cretaceous Period dinosaur named Alnashetri cerropoliciensis that lived about 95 million years ago in the Patagonia region of Argentina About 95 million years ago in Argentina's Patagonia region of South America, giant dinosaurs ruled the land....

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (463+ words) Triceratops was a huge plant-eating dinosaur that lived about 66 million years ago. It is famous for its three horns and giant bony frill (head crest). But scientists have discovered that its enormous head and horned snout may have been useful…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (410+ words) Despite its scary sounding name, Tyrannoroter was probably only about 30cm long A 307-million-year-old skull discovered in Canada may have belonged to one of the earliest known vegetarian animals, scientists say. Paleontologists - scientists who study fossils - found the skull inside a…...