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 ...

Prepare to be AMAZED by this viral video of an octopus solving a maze. Sashimi the Octopus even shocked his owner, Mark Rober ...

For more than a century, biologists assumed that the bony plates embedded in the skin of lizards – like natural chain mail – ...

Over the past half century, researchers have established that birds evolved from dinosaurs: specifically, the theropods, the ...

A uniquely preserved ichthyosaur from the Pliensbachian period helps resolve when a major evolutionary shift occurred among ...

Astronomers have observed a rainbow-shaped bow shock around a nearby white dwarf. Strong magnetic fields may drive the ...

Rare, 9‑foot-tall red‑necked ostriches, sometimes nicknamed “camel birds” for their towering height and desert stride, have ...

NASA has selected advanced technologies to power a future space telescope designed to image Earth-like planets and search ...

The search for life beyond our solar system heated up this year when scientists reported a tantalising signal from an exoplanet of a molecule that is known to be produced exclusively by life on Earth.

Americans are becoming more open to the idea that aliens have visited Earth, according to a series of polls that show belief in alien visitation has been steadily on the rise since 2012. Moreover, ...

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have, for the first time, recorded the songs of the Chinese hwamei Garrulax canorus (designated as an invasive alien species) in the alpine zone of Mt. Kisokoma in ...

If aliens are out there, why haven’t we heard from them? That’s the question at the center of Pop Mech’s new story, “Aliens Probably Exist—But They’re Staying Silent For a Reason, NASA Scientist ...