Australia’s iconic red landscapes have been home to Aboriginal culture and recorded in songlines for tens of thousands of ...

A genomic atlas of Nematostella vectensis reveals how primitive animals created multiple cell types millions of years ago, ...

A crowd-sourced search for alien intelligence called SETI@Home is in its final stages, analyzing 100 radio signals of ...

In his celebrated mea culpa, the German pastor Martin Niemöller blamed his failure to speak out against the Nazis on ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

Our bones did not begin deep inside the body. They started in the skin, not long after the first complex animals took shape.

Over the past half century, researchers have established that birds evolved from dinosaurs: specifically, the theropods, the ...

A uniquely preserved ichthyosaur from the Pliensbachian period helps resolve when a major evolutionary shift occurred among ...

Born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, in 1935, von Däniken rose to prominence when he published Chariots of the Gods? while working as a hotel manager in Davos. The book posed a provocative question that ...

Scientists working in Ethiopia's Afar Region have made discoveries that rewrite our understanding of early human history. For ...

Honeybees can solve simple addition and subtraction problems and even possess some understanding of the concept of zero ...

Erich von Däniken, who has died aged 90, was among the first writers to suggest that human civilisation, and even human ...