New Curtin University research has revealed that a massive meteorite struck northwestern Scotland about 200 million years ...

In Native Hawaiians’ genealogical stories, says Solomon Kahoʻohalahala, the coral polyp is considered the oldest ancestor, ...

When people believe that we have found life on other planets when we have not, we've lost more than public trust — we've lost ...

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

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

The virile warrior god of the north is seen as a romantic and doting son in southern India writes DEVDUTT PATTANAIK After the great war at Kurukshetra the Pandavas were haunted by dreams of dying warr ...

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

With the help of cat owners, a new project investigates cats’ biology and aims to link some of their behaviors to their genes ...

Eight critically endangered Fijian iguanas have arrived at the San Diego Zoo after being intercepted in Spain from illegal wildlife trafficking. The iguanas were among more than 600 reptiles seized by ...

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Dimethyl sulfide is cool—and a potential biosignature—but scientists are urging caution before we declare a plankton party ...

I wanted to make a point of placing the monsters within the daily life of Tokyo,” says the photographer Tess Ayano, who spent ...