Field crews in Wyoming uncovered not one but four snake fossils so intact that their skulls, ribs, and tails lay in ...

Trees get most of the love, but diatoms, a group of photosynthetic microalgae, produce 20% of Earth's oxygen and are the ...

Scientists have uncovered a dramatic acceleration in animal evolution triggered by climate change, with species adapting in ...

The emu is the second-largest bird in the world, right after the ostrich– and like the ostrich, it can’t fly. Found in ...

Scientists have revealed a novel means of tracking everything from wildlife to the presence of illicit substances using DNA ...

Plants produce an enormous abundance of natural products. Many natural plant products are ancestry-specific and occur only in ...

Discovery of a 700-million-year-old creature rewrites the story of animal evolution, revealing surprising new origins of life ...

For over a century, scientists have wrestled with one of biology’s most fundamental mysteries: how the first animals evolved.

Head lice, fleas and tapeworms have been humanity’s companions throughout our evolutionary history. Yet, the greatest ...

Allard was intrigued to learn that scientists suspect the appendages are sensory organs that help the fish — called sea ...