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.

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 ...

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

Picture the bottom of a warm Jurassic sea, roughly where southern France sits today, 160 million years before anyone built a road or planted a vineyard. Something impossibly spindly picks its way ...

Astronomers studying the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS say it could be a 12‑billion‑year‑old relic formed in near‑absolute‑zero conditions, while Nasa dismisses claims it is an alien probe.

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

Imagine a scorpion longer than a cricket bat crawling across ancient Britain. A new study confirms that the largest scorpion ever discovered lived around 415 million years ago, long before forests or ...

From some of the world’s most heat-resilient coral reefs to one of the planet’s largest intact subtropical freshwater peatlands, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has ...

For three billion years, if you’d looked at life on Earth, you’d have seen nothing. Not nothing in the sense of empty space – the oceans were full – but nothing visible, nothing that moved, nothing ...