About 120 million years ago, southern Australia was not the sunny, temperate land we know today. Instead, it lay within the ...

Bowhead whales, denizens of the Arctic Ocean, are revealed as exceptionally long-lived mammals, potentially reaching ages ...

The “867-5309” combination (a clever nod to the famous Tommy Tutone song) combines vanilla custard with peach, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, and cinnamon for a creation that tastes like a sophisticated ...

Most foraminiferan species reside on the seafloor, but paleontologists are particularly interested in planktonic species, ...

Researchers at CSIRO, Australias national science agency, peering into the whales genetic code, now believe bowheads could ...

They found traces of over a hundred different plant species ... frozen dirt and brought it back to the University of Copenhagen lab. But the tools for analyzing DNA—especially such old material ...

The "Ice Prince" burial sheds light on a toddler from a wealthy family who lived around 1,350 years ago in Bavaria, Germany.

For over a century, scientists have wrestled with one of biology’s most fundamental mysteries: how the first animals evolved.