A new study suggests that certain theropods—two-legged, mostly meat-eating dinosaurs—had shrunken forelimbs as an ...

Palaeontologists have got a clearer picture of where turtles fit in the animal kingdom, thanks to analysis of a southern ...

Roughly 500 million years ago, a strange event in the evolution of life on Earth seems to have taken place. The known fossil ...

On May 22, 2026, the Pentagon released a second batch of previously classified photos and videos showing what appear to be ...

We've been looking at nature the wrong way, argues Rowan Hooper. If we stop focusing on the individual, we get a whole new ...

A new study suggests Mars could help scientists understand how alien worlds evolve by showing how a once warmer, wetter ...

A groundbreaking archaeological discovery in West Africa is challenging long-held assumptions about early human adaptability and migration. Evidence from a site in Côte d'Ivoire reveals that Homo ...

Exploring deep, dangerous underwater cave systems offers scientists and divers unparalleled glimpses into Earth’s history, ...

With their incredible intelligence, shape-shifting abilities, and strange anatomy, octopuses often seem almost otherworldly.

Scientists figured out that the predators were lumped in with a previously named mosasaur species. The new one, called Tylosaurus rex, could grow to 43 feet long, about the length of a school bus ...

Reptiles have been growing armor in their skin on and off for hundreds of millions of years, but scientists never fully ...