Researchers in Costa Rica have uncovered ancient mastodon and giant sloth fossils, shedding light on the prehistoric giants that once roamed the region.

That’s exactly what happened to two scientists in northeastern India who found a mysterious 4-foot-long creature lying dead on the ground. What they discovered would spark excitement in the scientific ...

Scientists found a 307 million-year-old fossil, Tyrannoroter heberti, revealing one of the earliest known land vertebrates ...

In this Q&A with the authors of a recent book about Bigfoot hunters, they admit these people are neither anti-science nor irrational.

Hundreds of millions of years ago, the first animals to crawl onto land were strict meat-eaters, even as plants had already taken over the landscape. Now scientists have uncovered a ...

Ancient magnetic fossils reveal that animal navigation using Earth’s magnetic field may have evolved far earlier than ...

The animal kingdom contains a vast array of animals capability of remarkable regenerative abilities, but known are quite as adept at this healing task than sea-swelling Cnidarians, such as hydra, ...

A financial crisis could be triggered by an announcement that aliens exist, according to Helen McCaw, a former policy expert of the Bank of England. McCaw told The Times of London that politicians and ...

A creature with enormous eyes hid for centuries beneath a Spanish city and appeared in a forgotten Roman mine dating back 2,000 years The Carmona isopod, a new species named Baeticoniscus carmonaensis ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Illustration of the Earth-like exoplanet Proxima Centauri b orbiting the star Proxima ...

In January 1996, NORAD spotted an object entering Earth’s atmosphere. Minutes later, it crashed near Varginha, Brazil. The military scrambled — but civilians got there first. What they saw wasn’t ...

Scarlett Howard currently has funding from the Australian Research Council and the Hermon Slade Foundation. Adrian Dyer receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the Alexander von ...