A surprise drop in the unemployment rate in December is likely to keep the Federal Reserve on course to take a breather from ...

Some 445 million years ago, life on Earth was forever changed. During the geological blink of an eye, glaciers formed over ...

Morocco provide new evidence on human evolution, revealing an African lineage near the origin of Homo sapiens.

Other year-end selections are much larger than a zombie mushroom. In Peru, researchers described an acanth shrub that reaches ...

During these waves of mass extinction, most vertebrate survivors were confined to refugia, or isolated biodiversity hotspots ...

About 445 million years ago, Earth nearly wiped out life in the oceans. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...

In a new Science Advances study, researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) have now proved that ...

Human remains, unearthed near Casablanca, could belong to the ancestor we had in common between Homo Sapiens, Neanderthals, ...

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

Rare, 9‑foot-tall red‑necked ostriches, sometimes nicknamed “camel birds” for their towering height and desert stride, have ...

Long before whales dominated the oceans, Earth’s seas were home to a fish so massive it continues to challenge our ...