A hiker escaping summer heat in the Italian Alps in 2023 spotted unusual markings on a rock—fossilized footprints from creatures that lived 280 million years ago, long before dinosaurs appeared.

The boundary between Earth and outer space is far less clear than most people assume. Scientists use multiple definitions based on physics, aerodynamics, and orbital mechanics, each placing the ...

Now, evidence suggests that some of these spiral-shaped species did manage to persist after all. Recent analysis of ammonite ...

When most people think of massive snakes, the first one that comes to mind is the anaconda. Anacondas might be the largest ...

Sponges are among Earth's most ancient animals, but exactly when they evolved has long puzzled scientists. Genetic information from living sponges, as well as chemical signals from ancient rocks, ...

When one considers the scientific study of space, one of the first things that comes to mind is not likely to be the ...

In the aftermath of the giant asteroid that crashed into the Yucatan Peninsula about 66 million years ago, approximately 75% ...

The list spotlights incredible conservation action being taken to protect the world's weirdest and most wonderful wildlife.

Scientists have long believed that RNA may have been the first molecule capable of storing information and evolving, a ...

Did mammoths, sabre-tooth tigers and other Ice Age megafauna face a similar, impact-induced fate to the dinosaurs? That’s ...

The American Horseshoe Crab is about as close as you can get to a creature that shared the Earth with dinosaurs, but the ...

Horseshoe crabs have been around for 400 million years, but without protection, they could vanish from SC coast, ...