Palaeospondylus gunni, a small creature with an eel-like body that lived during the Middle Devonian epoch around 390 million years...

Dark comets are small bodies with no detected coma that have significant accelerations explainable by outgassing of volatiles, analogous to...

Consumption of at least five servings of dark chocolate a week (one serving is equal to a standard chocolate bar/pack...

New research by scientists from the University of Reading and the University of Durham shows that encephalization (i.e., relative brain...

These Earth-size ovals at Jupiter’s north and south poles are visible only at ultraviolet (UV) wavelengths, and appear and disappear...

Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of trogonophid amphisbaenian (worm lizard) from fossilized specimens found in Tunisia. Terastiodontosaurus...

The 36,000-year-old frozen specimen from Yakutia belongs to Homotherium latidens, a species of scimitar-toothed cat that inhabited Eurasia during the...

A newly-described genus and species of trilobite is a unique example of an animal changing the form and apparent function...

Archaeologists have examined an exceptional assemblage of over a hundred perforated pebbles from the 12,000-year-old Natufian village of Nahal Ein-Gev...

An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the planet hurtling through space; one of these...