“EC 53’s layered outflows may lift up these newly formed crystalline silicates and transfer them outward, like they’re on a ...

A former Harvard physicist has argued that God may have a physical location within the universe. Unfortunately for anybody ...

Hallucigenia belongs to a group of worm-like marine creatures called lobopodians that lived during the Cambrian Period, ...

T he human hand is often hailed as the “pinnacle of dexterity”, but there’s always room for improvement. In a new study, ...

C rew-11 came down from the International Space Station (ISS) in the first-ever medical evacuation from space last week. The ...

The distance an elephant can cover in the water is pretty staggering. A study in the Journal of Biogeography cites an account ...

However, while this find represents the earliest known elephant-bone tool in Europe, older examples have been found in East ...

Paranthropus’ most distinctive features were their heavy jaws and gigantic molars, leading to them being nicknamed the ...

In primates, there is so much variation that even individuals of the same species can possess an appendix while others don't!

Once these were the largest and most dominant living things on land, but their greatness did not ensure survival.

Noting that animals were seen by the Aztecs as “food for the gods”, he explains that the Totocalli was no ordinary zoo, and that the creatures it housed provided the ritual lifeblood that enabled the ...

We’ve been lucky to uncover countless dinosaur footprints over centuries of exploration, some of which represent the largest dinosaur trackways known to science. Remarkable to think, then, that they ...