Great white sharks have long stood in our collective imagination as the ultimate predator in our oceans. These sizable sharks ...

In most narratives, the story of evolution is the story of organisms emerging from the ocean and eventually populating the ...

His fossils, collected over a decade at a Jurassic site in New South Wales, have revealed a new species of non-biting midge.

The deep-sea's midnight zone, a realm of crushing pressure and absolute darkness, harbors extraordinary creatures. These ...

Washington, DC— Pairing cutting-edge chemistry with artificial intelligence, a multidisciplinary team of scientists found ...

Kissing is more than just "mouth-to-mouth" touching, and the study doesn't really shed much light on why humans kiss the way ...

A spider fossil from northeastern China is so exquisitely preserved that it reads like a field notebook from deep time, ...

Fossils are 50 times smaller than the width of a hairNew study shows they could help an organism navigateEels are one ...

How did extinct animals move? Paleontologists are interested in figuring this out since it can tell us more about their ways of life, such as whether they were agile enough to hunt prey. It can also ...

A long time ago, tiny crystals formed in seafloor mud and held onto secrets that would puzzle scientists for decades. These ...

A new study finds that thousands of hazardous sites across the U.S. are at risk of flooding due to sea level rise that could ...