What: A newly identified star system, Gaia GIC1, exhibits unusual brightness variations consistent with a large planetary ...

To solve this puzzle, Thomas Clements, a paleontologist at the University of Leicester, and his colleagues put this supposed ...

The Pohlsepia mazonensis fossil was found in Illinois in the US in 2000, and first identified as an octopus 25 years ago. It ...

A famous “oldest octopus” fossil has been exposed as a case of mistaken identity. Advanced imaging revealed hidden teeth ...

Goosebumps might be a common phenomenon we experience in our lives, as they were for our ancestors, but they might play an ...

Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants ...

Newfound fossils from China suggest that complex animals were around millions of years earlier than thought, among them ...

A fossil bed in China containing animals up to 554 million years old suggests that we may have to reconsider the idea that ...

Our study suggests that our eyes descend from a worm-like ancestor that was roaming the oceans 600 million years ago. The ...

Ducks with corkscrew penises, fish changing sex – what do we really know about sex and reproduction on Earth? Less than we ...

Scientists warn that assisted evolution may be too slow to save coral reefs as ocean heat waves intensify and climate change ...