Stellenbosch University (SU) student Rohan Barnard was out on a farm in the Swartberg Mountains between Calitzdorp and ...

Scientists have discovered that a promising new anticancer medicine currently in development could be made from unknown ...

After decades understanding pH controls boron speciation in seawater and other saline waters it turns out the opposite is ...

Little did Barnard know at the time that he had just discovered a new species of velvet worm, now fittingly named Rohan’s ...

But in an underground chamber in northeastern India, researchers have discovered a cave fish that ... could be an example of “speciation and evolution in progress,” Harries says.

The story of human evolution is far messier and less straightforward than most people think, protagonized by a procession of ...

Many have claimed to have "discovered" the America's first. From Christopher Columbus, to Leif Erikson, all the way to the first paleoindians who set foot on the continent during the last ice age.

Scientists have identified a new pod of ancient people who lived near the land bridge between North America and South America ...

In 1984, an amateur paleontologist in Scotland found a remarkable specimen: a nearly complete fossil of what looked to be a ...

A prehistoric sea monster never-before-known to man was hunting prey in North America 85 million years ago, fossils found decades ago in Canada reveal.

Fossilized claw tracks discovered in Australia show that the animal group that includes reptiles, mammals and birds formed ...