Biologists identify a new species of "living fossil" chiton through cutting-edge mitochondrial genome sequencing.

Half a billion years ago, the first true eye emerged in Earth’s oceans. Fossils now reveal what that ancient crystal vision could actually see.

Sea fossils found on some of the world's tallest mountains are reigniting fierce debate over whether the biblical story of ...

A snake in southwest Indonesia has shattered the Guinness World Record for the longest serpent ever spotted in the wild.

They gave quartz, calcite and other types of crystals to chimpanzees in a rehabilitation center. The apes responded with great interest, and the researchers ended up needing to trade large amounts of ...

The Antscan database captures the tiny insects’ diversity and shows how the world’s living things could be rendered in three dimensions.

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws ...

The monsterverse has some truly impressive titans, each spanning taller than skyscrapers, with some Kaiju even bigger than ...

The Spinosaurus is a sail-backed, crocodile-snouted dinosaur that Hollywood depicted as a giant terrestrial predator capable ...

When it comes to LEGO sets, high piece counts and high prices often go hand-in-hand. For years, the standard LEGO pricing came out out to approximately 10 cents per brick, which meant a 5,000-piece ...

For comparison, the coastline of the USA’s Washington state measures 400 kilometres (250 miles). The cave is 118 metres (379 ...