Spanish scientists are set to disclose Christopher Columbus's origins through DNA analysis, addressing a historical debate.

During the Carboniferous Period, Earth's atmospheric oxygen levels surged, helping some plants and animals grow to gigantic ...

Turtle ants also have a caste system. The number of different female castes within that system can sometimes vary between ...

Scientists have unveiled the head of Arthropleura, the largest bug to ever exist, which roamed the Earth 300 million years ...

Now, a 225-million-year-old fossilized jaw joint appears to represent the oldest example of a type of joint that has helped ...

While the new fossils are not from fully grown Arthropleura, some of which reached 2.6 metres long, they reveal important ...

By studying rare fossils of jaws and other skull parts of a long-extinct Caribbean monkey, a team of researchers that ...

Researchers have developed a rapid 3D photoacoustic tomography (PAT) scanner for high-resolution vascular imaging, enabling ...

Researchers have discovered new fossils of the extinct Caribbean monkey Antillothrix bernensis in the Dominican Republic. The ...

That’s the finding from a new study in Mammalia, which shows servals will adapt accordingly, persisting almost solely on rats ...

but this remarkable fossil has been almost perfectly preserved with its internal anatomy intact. And it represents a species ancestral to the arthropods that teem all over our planet today – spiders, ...

The Venus flytrap ( Dionaea muscipula) is an iconic carnivorous plant that traps insects using its specialized leaves. With their fascinating biology and whimsical appearance, Venus flytraps have ...