The origin of turtles has puzzled scientists. A new study provides more evidence that these shelled reptiles share a common ...

It might share its name with the largest meat-eating dinosaur that ever lived, but this isn’t the T.rex we all know and ...

Some frogs have evolved features so strange that scientists struggle to explain them, and a few look less like amphibians ...

Books like Children of Time and Flowers for Algernon do an incredible job holding the audience's interest throughout their ...

With over three decades of pioneering research in forest genetics, biodiversity conservation and ecological restoration, Dr ...

A fossil of the creature provides the first evidence that microraptors lived in what is now northwestern China. Its discovery ...

Beneath the icy silence of Antarctica's famous Dry Valleys lies a world so unusual that it often resembles another planet.

What if consciousness isn’t limited to brains like ours? Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that ...

Scientists propose building a lab on the moon to screen Mars and other space samples for alien microbes before they ever ...

Researchers have looked at how particular microbes from Earth would fare in conditions like those of Mars, the moon, and the ...

Jellyfish have returned to the Gulf of Maine, and some can pack a nasty sting. The large lion's mane jellyfish has been seen in the waters of New Hampshire and can wash up on the shore. "They're very ...

Malta’s coastal waters are rapidly changing as marine heatwaves drive the spread of invasive species, with some bays now ...