To Shakespeare’s Hamlet we humans are “the paragon of animals”. But recent advances in genetics are suggesting that humans ...

Field crews in Wyoming uncovered not one but four snake fossils so intact that their skulls, ribs, and tails lay in ...

When Minnesotans talk about hidden gems, they’re usually referring to a secluded lake or a tucked-away café—not a sprawling treasure trove that sits in plain sight in St. Anthony, daring passersby to ...

Discovery of a 700-million-year-old creature rewrites the story of animal evolution, revealing surprising new origins of life ...

For over a century, scientists have wrestled with one of biology’s most fundamental mysteries: how the first animals evolved.

Fossil tracks from Australia reveal reptiles appeared 40 million years earlier than thought. The origin of reptiles on Earth ...

Loretta Swit, who played Major Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan on seminal TV comedy “MASH,” died Friday at her home in New York ...

In 1984, an amateur paleontologist in Scotland found a remarkable specimen: a nearly complete fossil of what looked to be a ...

During the years after the Civil War, America embraced an economic philosophy called laissez-faire, celebrating the notion ...

Across the icy edges of Earth’s northern and southern reaches, life has adapted to thrive in some of the harshest conditions.

Shani Jayanti 2025 is observed on Tuesday, May 27, marking the divine birth anniversary of Lord Shani, the powerful deity who ...