The discovery of a collection of about 700 fossils known as the Jiangchuan Biota gives scientists a better understanding of ...

This enigmatic orb has undergone extensive examination and DNA testing, enabling scientists to reveal its true origins ...

The discovery, using novel techniques to analyze fossilized jaws, details how colossal octopuses hunted the Late Cretaceous depths, competing with apex predators.

NOAA and Smithsonian scientists have identified the mysterious golden orb found two miles deep in the Gulf of Alaska as part of a rare giant deep-sea anemone.

Beneath East Africa’s Turkana Rift, scientists have found the crust is thinning to a critical point, suggesting the continent ...

Now a new study in the journal Science details a devilishly devious bacterial strategy to thwart phages through ...

Scientists experimentally confirmed what we’ve known to be true for half a century—darkness can “travel” faster than light.

Tuscany might be the last place anyone would expect a supervolcano to be hiding. This picturesque region of central ...

Chinese scientists have discovered two new lunar minerals from the lunar samples brought back by China's Chang'e-5 mission.

Turning back the pages through centuries of science! Dan Smith has the story of an Italian historian's incredible find on a ...

A two-and-a-half-year-old mystery of a "golden orb" found on the ocean floor has finally been solved.It all started when ...

Botanists long believed the plant that's exclusive to the Pine Barrens was related to varieties that are hundreds of miles ...