Ruby Reynolds and her father were on the beach when they discovered Ichthyotitan severnensis - the largest-ever marine ...

Genomic analysis showed that deep-sea fish have lower mutation rates but stronger signals of natural selection, especially in ...

Scientists on an expedition to the South Sandwich Islands near Antarctica have recorded horrifying videos of parasitic ...

Geologists near Starkville found a bone of a Mosasaurus hoffmannii, one of the biggest species of mosasaurs, which could reach lengths of 50 feet.

The Jurassic fossil Juracanthocephalus reveals a key evolutionary link between rotifers and parasitic acanthocephalans, ...

Something ancient still walks the world’s shorelines—creatures with armored shells and spiky tails that seem plucked from the ...

The coast of Taiwan's Penghu Islands at low tide in January 2024, and how the shallow sea extends out, near where a fossil ...

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and Homo ...

Professor Lars Schmitz joins WIRED to guide us through a giant tree of life mapping the evolution of eyes in the animal ...

While President Trump has pledged to be a friend to the fossil fuel industry and taken steps intended to bolster it, several of his recent moves have garnered pushback from oil, gas and coal ...

It takes its name from the Permian period – a geological era that lasted from about 299 to 252 million years ago – when this part of the world was swamped by an inland sea, linked to the vast ...

About the size of a 20 cent piece… the Kwonkan nemoralis. Credit: Dr Jeremy Wilson Researchers discovered two new species of trapdoor spiders in northern Australia with uniquely engineered burrows, ...