A controversial idea suggests the ancestors of echidnas were more like the platypus. For the first time, fossil evidence ...

While much remains unknown, it is intriguing that two ancient meteorite impacts, the 3.5-billion-year-old North Pole impact ...

Overly risky or self-destructive behavior can be observed in any generation. There need not be a gene for it—random mutations ...

An astronomer at Columbia University is suggesting that because life emerged so soon on Earth after its formation, it may ...

The study tracks mammoth evolution over a million years using mitogenomes, showing shifts in diversity and lineage tied to ...

A light-hearted round-up of this week's stories from Cambridge, including TV quiz shows and a paw-sitive opportunity for the uni's furry friends ...

One of the world's rarest trees—a prehistoric ‘dinosaur tree’—is bearing fruit for first time after couple planted it in ...

In the last years of his life, probably around 1844, great polish poet Juliusz Słowacki [1809-1849] wrote a mystical prose poem ...

The “Tree of Life” in Olympic National Park has become a symbol of resilience over the years, but recent photos show that ...

Wollemi pines – dubbed dinosaur trees – date back more than 90 million years and were thought to have died out with T-Rex.

More than any other pope, Francis incorporated the best scientific conclusions into his teaching on the environment; he ...

Imagine wandering through a prehistoric landscape, only to stumble upon a creature as big as a Volkswagen Beetle, covered in ...