Evolution, a new five-part series tells the extraordinary story of how life on Earth has changed over more than four billion ...

Meghalaya is renowned not only for its breathtaking landscapes but also for its extraordinary underground world. Its heavy rainfall and vast limestone deposits have, over millions of years, created ...

Biologists have long puzzled over how organs develop into their final shapes, and the nearly transparent bodies of young sea stars may offer a unique window into the organ development process.

Rare fossils from Illinois are challenging one of evolution's oldest assumptions and revealing an unexpected path taken by ...

A breakthrough study revealed a primitive brain region that acts as a built-in filter to block out a noisy world.

Smaller than a domestic cat, there are two species of wild cat that could be considered the world’s smallest cat. Meet these ...

For centuries, humans have told stories about the legendary Kraken, a huge octopus that coud sink ships whole. But roughly ...

Climate crisis and warming waters have attracted long-toothed pufferfish to new parts of the Mediterranean ...

Arguably one of the most curious ancient human relatives is Homo floresiensis, a 3-foot-tall species that lived on the ...

Analysis of fossils discovered in Illinois reveals a previously unknown growth pattern and opens a new scientific debate.

Successful reproduction presents a fundamental evolutionary paradox: the immune system must tolerate genetically foreign sperm and embryos while maintaining ...

With El Niño expected to occur this summer, we expect another year of extreme threats to biodiversity' An international group ...