Ohio used to be beachfront property. Caesar Creek State Park near Waynesville is where you can prove it by collecting fossils ...

Scientists propose that recently uncovered fossils may be the earliest evidence of behavioral “handedness” in animals.

Scientists studying interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS say its unusual chemical fingerprints suggest it formed around an ancient ...

Fossils of Spriggina floundersi provide the earliest evidence of animals favouring one side of the body over the other – a ...

Moms are capable of magic that is more than just maternal. Nature has imbued its most special being with surprisingly strange ...

In 1978, a wonder emerged from the crumbling earth of the Gram Clay Pits in Denmark. Paleontologists were stunned when they ...

‘I certainly wouldn’t have wanted to go swimming in the ancient oceans if these things were swimming around,’ one scientist said. Illustration: Hokkaido University. For centuries, humans have told ...

But exploring the evolutionary roots of these diverse maternal methods is tough, because reproductive tissues decay quickly ...

Astrobiologists think extraterrestrial civilisations grow so much that they hit crisis points, missing the chance to set out ...

If an alien intelligence were hiding somewhere on Earth, many scientists suspect it might look something like an octopus.

New Mexico's carved hoodoos, expansive badlands, and rising mesas feel like they belong in another world, far away from the American Southwest.

At first, they looked like muddy chunks of ancient shell. But these 20-million-year-old fossil oysters had been slowly replaced with agate over time, creating hidden patterns inside the stone. When ...