A group of scientists studying pregnancy across six different mammals—from humans to marsupials—uncovered how certain cells ...

An ichthyosaur preserved beneath a Chilean glacier is helping scientists understand the extinct animals and the world around them as a supercontinent broke up.

A new technique of examination, which digitized cretaceous rocks, led to the discovery of the oldest known squid specimen.

Researchers said the rare species “abruptly disappeared” from the region following an El Niño event. Now it is thriving.

As apex predators, they act as an umbrella species, meaning their survival sustains the existence of dozens of others. Iconic ...

Within three months, a shipment of small branches arrived in California. The branches carried not only cottony cushion scale, ...

Despite their mistreatment by popular culture, Norway lemmings turn out to have an interesting evolutionary history.

Scientists at RBG Kew and Queen Mary University of London have found evidence that young ash tree populations are evolving ...

The mind-controlling “zombie” fungus, which served as the inspiration for the video game and post-apocalyptic TV show The Last of Us, emerged about 133 million years ago when dinosaurs roamed Earth, a ...

His future looked grim until Alice, a domestic Pony of the Americas who’d recently lost her newborn, accepted him as her own.

Near the rocky beaches of inner Nova Scotia, a researcher’s hunch led to the discovery of a new prehistoric species. /iStock ...

Because they rely on hosts for a majority of functions, viruses aren’t considered alive. But entities like ‘Sukunaarchaeum ...