Could humans spread Earth life beyond our planet? Astrobiologists explain where extremophiles might survive and why the risks ...

Thus far, our search for extraterrestrial life points toward Clarke’s former point, suggesting that our little blue dot is ...

Deep-sea explorers discovered tiny, jet-black spheres clinging to rocks nearly four miles beneath the Pacific Ocean. These ...

What if consciousness isn’t limited to brains like ours? Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that ...

Islands are already famous for strange wildlife, but their cave systems take isolation to another level. Cut off from sunlight, predators, and sometimes even the open ocean, these underground ...

Teetering near endangered status, the starlet sea anemone produces “an ancient mechanism” for fighting viruses that ...

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Most of us are fascinated to learn about the animals that used to walk the earth but unfortunately we have precious little to go on. Most prehistoric animals only leave behind fossils and although we ...

A fossil of the creature provides the first evidence that microraptors lived in what is now northwestern China. Its discovery ...

Sea stars can produce eggs for up to 200 years. Their surprisingly human-like ovaries may offer clues about fertility and reproductive aging.

The titanosaur lived in Antarctica, and scientists have just found evidence that was actually discovered over 40 years ago.