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

Researchers found fossils suggesting that these early octopuses could have reached 19 meters in legnth. Their fossil jaws ...

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

A 150-million-year-old fossil unearthed in Fujian province has revealed what researchers say is the smallest known ...

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

A study of fossil teeth from China shows early mammals got bigger before their diets became specialized after the ...

The neurobiologist Erich Jarvis studies the few species capable of speech. He has long hoped to genetically engineer an ...

This fish is a gold mine of knowledge for scientists – since the same species evolved in such vastly different environments, comparing the two offers insights into how evolution and how behaviour is ...

DETROIT – Did you know whale remains have been found in Michigan? It’s not a hoax. Experts say it’s the real deal. I’m not talking about the Basilosaurus that lived here 37 million years ago. Much ...

Standing proudly across an open grassland, the great bustard is one of the world's heaviest birds capable of sustained flight ...

Congratulations are in order for the United States of America, with this year marking 250 years since the 1776 signing of the Declaration of Independence. Of course, while the major milestone ...

Scientists have documented four chameleon species that were previously unknown to science in Mozambique's isolated mountaintop rainforests.