New research shows how some deep-sea fish, with their specialized, ultra-black skin, are able to avoid detection…

The world’s largest soaring bird—the Andean condor—can stay aloft for 5 hours and cover more than 100 miles of real…

Scientists have detected snake-like dental glands in caecilians, which means these serpentine creatures might…

A new bird song is spreading like wildfire among Canadian white-throated sparrows, at a scale not seen before by…

Fossils rarely retain evidence of an organism’s original color, but these 99-million-year-old amber fossils found in…

Marine biologists from Japan say whale sharks have eyeballs coated in tiny teeth, in a discovery unique to this…

Scientists have traced the ancestry of modern sled dogs, such as Siberian huskies and Alaskan malamutes, all the way…

New research suggests early dinosaurs laid eggs with soft shells, and mosasaurs—gigantic marine reptiles—did so,…

Science is moving at record speed to try to contain and cure the novel coronavirus, which has already infected more…

Modern crocodiles are known for their sprawling four-legged gait, but this Cretaceous crocodilian walked on two legs…

Scientists in the United Kingdom have discovered a rare bone, called the os cordis, in chimpanzees with a common…

Imagine the grossest home you’ve ever been to. Your beer-can littered college dorm room? The apartment of an…

It’s a bit unorthodox, reaching out to those who spend their lives studying the past and asking them to predict the…

A 110-million-year-old fossil found nine years ago at an open pit mine in Alberta is providing fascinating new…

Inside every dog there’s a hero waiting to be unleashed, or at least, that’s what we’d like to believe about our…

Marine biologists, with help from Inuit whalers, have assembled an unprecedented collection of narwhal…

A brood of periodic cicadas not seen since 2003 is expected to emerge this year in parts of the United States.…

Humans and other animals are quite alike—we all just speak different languages. For humans, it’s about the spoken…

The covid-19 pandemic has forced a delay to an effort to protect vulnerable seabirds from large, invasive mice on an…

Archivists in Australia working on the digital restoration of an incomplete travelogue from 1935 discovered that it…