Australia’s iconic red landscapes have been home to Aboriginal culture and recorded in songlines for tens of thousands of ...

A genomic atlas of Nematostella vectensis reveals how primitive animals created multiple cell types millions of years ago, ...

A crowd-sourced search for alien intelligence called SETI@Home is in its final stages, analyzing 100 radio signals of ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

Our bones did not begin deep inside the body. They started in the skin, not long after the first complex animals took shape.

Over the past half century, researchers have established that birds evolved from dinosaurs: specifically, the theropods, the ...