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

A new study theorizes that evolution ticks at different speeds, especially when a big group of organisms first appears.

For more than a century, fossils meant bones, shells and the occasional imprint of a leaf. Now, a wave of research is showing that the most revealing relics of ancient organisms are not their shapes ...

Blue blood may look alien, but it’s one of evolution’s most elegant solutions to life in extreme environments. Here’s how ...

A bumpy snailfish, Andean mouse opossum and ancient sea cow were just some of the many species described in 2025.

The humble horseshoe crab, an ancient species crawling seafloors since before the dawn of the dinosaurs, was durable enough to survive the mass extinctions of eons past. But now, hundreds of millions ...

For generations, the question of whether life exists beyond Earth has captivated humanity. On Mars, faint traces in ancient ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

“A rare Mola mola (ocean sunfish) washed up on our shore at Cardiff State Beach today,” San Diego State Lifeguards stated ...

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

Those concerned that 3I/ATLAS' arrival to our solar system meant that some sort of alien invasion was imminent can breathe a ...

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of ...