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 ...

A long-neglected fossil seems to show the evolutionary leap that let the ancestors of today’s many-legged arthropods crawl forth from the seas. By Jack Tamisiea Some 425 million years ago, leggy ...

A bizarre, cyclops-like creature from nearly 600 million years ago may hold the key to how your eyes—and even your sleep cycle—evolved. Scientists have discovered that all vertebrates, including ...

Trans actor Elliot Page felt shame and isolation growing up as a queer child, he said in a People magazine interview published last Saturday. That’s why he’s promoting Second Nature, an upcoming ...

This 375-million-year-old fish, the closest known relative of the ancestors of limbed animals such as humans, likely evolved the foundation for rear legs even before the move to land, researchers say.

A joint research team has successfully sequenced the complete genomes of ancient dogs excavated from archaeological sites on the Korean Peninsula, marking the first such analysis of ancient Korean dog ...

The giant kraken, a mythical marine beast, may not be entirely fiction. New evidence suggests that octopuses up to 62 feet long likely roamed the waters of ancient Earth, ripping and devouring prey in ...

The pop-culture pros at Cracked imagine what the wildly popular true crime documentary genre would look like if it had to be completely upfront about what it was doing. Deadly mass shooting in Texas ...

Netflix is a haven for documentaries, but let’s face it, there are so many to. choose from that sometimes it’s hard to decide which ones are worth your time. Well, you’re in luck. We’ve seen a lot of ...

Scientists have successfully revived a 24,000-year-old microscopic organism from Siberian permafrost, offering new insight into how life can endure extreme conditions over vast stretches of time.

Also: What's wrong with you? By Tony Maglio Martin Short is not a national treasure — the Canadian comic actor and Hollywood superstar is a full-on continental treasure. In addition to (Lawrence) ...