Turtles today are often slow-moving, modestly sized creatures, but their ancient relatives were quite different. Long before ...

When pill bugs roll into a tiny ball, the act looks far simpler than it actually is. Known as conglobation, a pill bugs’ ...

Over 150 years ago, a fossilized organism known as Prototaxites emerged as an enigma regarding what early land life may have ...

HE’S here to talk about the UFOs… you know, the ones in the forest,” I hear a few of the bar staff whisper. There are no ...

For over a century, it was assumed that science had a handle on the big categories of life on Earth: plants, animals, fungi, and microorganisms were t.

It's no overstatement to say that E.T. is one of the greatest films to emerge from the 80s, but its creation remains a story ...

A new study refines radiocarbon dating of marine remains and significantly improves the precision with which the human past of the Magdalenian period in the Cantabrian region of Spain can be ...

An animal ecologist researching large marine animals such as whales and dolphins, Assistant Professor Iwata Takashi of the ...

The genetic analysis detected 367 different plant species across the samples. More remarkably, individual elephants showed ...

Australia is doing absolutely everything to protect its most iconic ecosystem—perhaps except the thing that matters most.

Long before the rise of the mighty dinosaurs on our Earth, the planet was indeed dominated by the mighty ‘giants,’ but the ...

Researchers studying exquisitely preserved Scottish fossils say Prototaxites represents an entirely extinct eukaryotic lineage - a “new form of life” in the sense that it does not fit into known major ...