Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

The New York City Council employee detained by federal immigration agents during a routine court appearance was illegally in ...

Humans have always been fascinated with space. We frequently question whether we are alone in the universe. If not, what does ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

For more than a century, fossils meant bones, shells and the occasional imprint of a leaf. Now, a wave of research is showing that the most revealing relics of ancient organisms are not their shapes ...

This documentary examines a rare predatory dinosaur whose oversized claws shocked paleontologists when they were first ...

A least four top career officials in the criminal section of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division have resigned in protest over ...

A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems.

Prehistoric sea cows, a mouse-sized opossum, a smiling deep-sea fish and live-birthing toads highlight a year of discoveries ...

Federal prosecutors on Monday charged one of two people shot by a federal immigration agent last week, accusing the man of ...

Blue blood may look alien, but it’s one of evolution’s most elegant solutions to life in extreme environments. Here’s how ...

Today, rock wallabies rarely stray far from the safety of their rocky shelters. But the fossil record tells a very different ...