Archaeologists in Spain have brought back the voice of the Neolithic by successfully playing ancient shells that had been ...

One afternoon, you read a paper title and pause, not because it is complex, but because it sounds wrong. Right-handed snakes.

In a series of small, clustered archaeological sites along the Llobregat River basin in Catalonia, a pattern has quietly ...

One year after her home in the Pacific Palisades was destroyed, Juliana Shallcross looks back on the travel souvenirs she ...

The Hearty Blueshell Snail is a one of the creatures found in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Most creatures drop recoverable materials and some are used for as ingredients for cooking, side ...

Everyone who lives or vacations near the ocean has gone on an early morning beach walk to collect shells and, thinking they have found a perfectly intact specimen, bent over and plucked it from the ...

In 2025, the world marked another sad milestone in the ongoing loss of biodiversity: multiple species long missing from their ...

Burial, Alor Island, Indonesia (top); sea-snail-shell fishhooks (above)(Sofía Samper Carro) In a rock shelter on Indonesia’s Alor Island, just north of Timor, archaeologists have discovered five ...

These "total monsters of fishes" are extinct today, though new clues about their lives come from CT scans and their closest ...

Stephen Van Handel will read from his debut children's novel about a spider who spins gold instead of webs, featuring ...

Nearly 12,000 feet beneath the Greenland Sea, in darkness and crushing pressure, the Freya Hydrate Mounds are quietly ...

Deep inside a fossil-filled cave in the Dominican Republic, researchers uncovered evidence of an unexpected interaction ...