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Are women who have twins more fertile? While previous studies concluded they are, a detailed analysis of more than 100,000 births from pre-industrial Europe by an international team of scientists shows they are not.

The Los Aljezares open-air site is "rich in lithic, faunal and archaeobotanical materials, and well-dated in time."

Journalist Jesse Winter ventured out with a thermometer during a heat wave last summer. The temperature differences between wealthy and poor neighbourhoods were staggering.

Studies have shown that rather than opposites attracting, pepole are more likely to date someone who looks like them, and couples like Gisele and Tom Brady as a case in point.

Journalist Jesse Winter ventured out with a thermometer during a heat wave last summer. The temperature differences between wealthy and poor neighbourhoods were staggering.

Dinosaurs were already struggling before the asteroid strike that doomed them to extinction, study finds By Katie Hunt, CNN enablePagination: false endIndex: (CNN) — It was an asteroid strike that doomed the dinosaurs to extinction 66 million years ago. But what were their lives like before it hit? Whether they were thriving or already teetering on the brink has long been a matter of debate for paleontologists. A new study suggests that dinosaurs were in decline for as many as 10 million ye...

The last march of dinosaurs. painting by Jorge Gonzalez © Graphs showing how speciation rate (blue) dipped and extinction rate (red) rose sharply in the last 10 million years of the age of dinosaurs. Run together, this corresponds to a rapid reduction in the number of species (black) just before the impact of the asteroid 66 million years ago. Image by Fabien L. Condamine ©. Press release issued: 29 Ju...