A new study led by researchers at the University of Oxford has shown that the shape and orientation of coastlines ...

Off the Maluku Islands in Indonesia, two French divers descended to nearly 145 meters and found what few ever see: a living ...

In London, the Natural History Museum released its 2025 list of newly described species, formally adding 262 plants and ...

For decades, scientists have puzzled over a significant gap in the fossil record of Earth's earliest animals, with genetic ...

The missing link in the mystery turned out to be an event called the Cambrian explosion. It was only after it that living ...

Earth’s first sponges may have been ghostly, soft-bodied pioneers—ancient animals that evolved long before their skeletons ...

An international team of scientists from South Africa, Canada, France and the UK has uncovered fossil evidence of a tiny ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Oxford has shown that the shape and orientation of coastlines significantly influenced extinction ...

A study of fossil bones shows Tyrannosaurus rex kept growing until around age 40, challenging long-held ideas about dinosaur ...

Top paleontologists have discovered that mating between some species of prehistoric behemoths was so violent that they ...

The lawsuit claims that if the United States protects horseshoe crabs, more biomedical companies would make a faster switch ...

Little is known about why the woolly rhinoceros went extinct around 14,000 years ago. Scientists have found clues in the ...