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

A groundbreaking discovery in Morocco reveals a new duckbilled dinosaur species that challenges our understanding of dinosaur ...

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 ...

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 ...

New research shows 8,000-pound sloths once dug caves, adapted to oceans, and roamed widely—until climate and humans brought their downfall.

Early humans weren’t just walking upright—they were climbing trees and crafting stone tools in a surprising blend of ancient ...

Scientists used gene-editing technology to create “Peter Pan” tadpoles that would eat the eggs of Australia’s cane toads—and ...

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 ...