Ammonite fossils can be found all over the world, but in one place, something happened that turned their remains into rainbow ...

You don't have to be a genius: anemones have been using human genes to form their bodies for 600 million years.

Turtles today are often slow-moving, modestly sized creatures, but their ancient relatives were quite different. Long before ...

Blood tests are useful tools for doctors and scientific researchers: they can reveal a lot about a body's health. Usually, a blood sample is taken to get a picture of the large molecules that are ...

Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...

Rock climbers in Italy stumbled across evidence of what appears to be a sea turtle stampede that took place nearly 80 million ...

For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...

Unique ceramic figures along with a 2,500-year-old special type of water-basin have been discovered in the Ancient Greek city ...

Researchers have uncovered three long-extinct creatures preserved within fossilised tree resin that once belonged to the ...

A new Nature Communications study has tracked these lulls in cassiopea jellyfish, which belong to a 500 million year-old ...

A 2020 astronaut photo shows the oasis town of Jubbah lurking within a paleolake in the wind shadow of Saudi Arabia's "two ...