If humans vanished, evolution might not crown another primate. One unlikely marine predator has the brain, dexterity, and ...

Scientists propose that recently uncovered fossils may be the earliest evidence of behavioral “handedness” in animals.

Fossils of Spriggina floundersi provide the earliest evidence of animals favouring one side of the body over the other – a ...

Massachusetts takes center stage in Shark Week, as a wildlife biologist swims with ‘big as hell’ sharks off the South Shore: ...

When it comes to the search for life elsewhere in the universe, methane and other chemical compounds are seen as signs of ...

Some of these approaches may show promise, but new research indicates much of today’s AI is even more easily duped by false ...

In a recent two-week voyage through the southern Atlantic, scientists uncovered an astonishing array of 31 previously unknown ...

But exploring the evolutionary roots of these diverse maternal methods is tough, because reproductive tissues decay quickly ...

After a two week expedition off the coast of Brazil, an international team of researchers discovered 31 new marine species, ...

Teetering near endangered status, the starlet sea anemone produces “an ancient mechanism” for fighting viruses that ...

We can’t protect what we do not know, and now that we have confirmed that this other species of pangolin exists, we can use ...