Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

Humans have always been fascinated with space. We frequently question whether we are alone in the universe. If not, what does ...

Humans have yet to find aliens. But they are already preparing for the day this happens, and have been working on languages ...

Honeybees can solve simple addition and subtraction problems and even possess some understanding of the concept of zero ...

A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems.

The deep sea also harbours some of the most intriguing and alien-like species in existence, yet for several centuries, these ...

By Douglas Kruger CHRISTMAS Day. 10.58am. I’m on the beach at Havre des Pas, leaning slightly against a 25mph wind, wondering ...

If scientists are able to inspect it in person, and they find that Mars was indeed once alive with microbes, we would know ...

Prologue The forced Christianization of Hellas / Greece in the fourth century and after wounded ancient Hellenic / Greek ...

Built by the earliest Stone Age farmers, who tilled the soil 6,000 years ago, the “monumental” timber building was described as a find of international significance. No buildi ...

Human brains do something peculiar when a chimpanzee screams or hoots. Instead of treating those sounds as generic animal ...