Rare Creature Discovered at the Bottom of the Great Salt Lake Has Never Been Seen in the U.S.

We know the main reason that the age of the dinosaurs came to an end: an asteroid impact on the Yucatán Peninsula some 66 million years ago. But how the dinosaurs’ reign began is far less clear—and ...

There are moments in science that feel less like discovery and more like disbelief. Imagine losing a part of your heart and ...

Farm and meatpacking workers are going to court seeking justice, even as the Trump administration's deportation efforts ...

Scientists found a 307 million-year-old fossil, Tyrannoroter heberti, revealing one of the earliest known land vertebrates ...

Life on Earth started in the oceans. Sometime around 475 million years ago, plants began making their way from the water onto ...

We humans have long viewed ourselves as the pinnacle of evolution. People label other species as “primitive” or “ancient” and use terms like “higher” and “lower” animals. This anthropocentric ...

Life’s story may stretch further back than scientists once thought. Some genes found in nearly every organism today were already duplicated before all life shared a common ancestor. By tracking these ...

The “mesozoic cow” was a dinosaur with hundreds of ever-replacing teeth. Here’s how its uniquely adapted skull allowed it to ...

What happens during an interview with someone who hates being interviewed?