Every year, scientists venture into Earth’s most remote corners — from the crushing depths of ocean trenches to the misty canopies of cloud forests — and return with remarkable discoveries that ...

A surprising discovery from high-altitude animals like yaks and Tibetan antelopes could reshape how we treat nerve damage in humans. Scientists found that a genetic mutation helping these animals ...

Scientists have identified a new species of pterosaur from one of the strangest fossils imaginable, a lump of prehistoric ...

The assemblage suggests that the ancestors of some of today's animal groups may have arisen before the famed Cambrian ...

Research findings are available online in the journal Science Advances. The original story “ Scientists find a new way to ...

A remarkable fossil discovery in southwest China is rewriting the story of how complex animal life began, showing that many key animal groups appeared millions of years earlier than scientists once ...

A strange creature from the deep ocean, Ferreiraella populi, was named by internet users and is now a scientifically ...

A long-standing belief about HIV has quietly shaped how scientists think about the virus. For decades, researchers described ...

Look alive, science fans — a new subatomic particle has just dropped after a 20-year search. Discovered by British researchers at the nuclear research laboratory CERN near Geneva, Switzerland, the ...

For decades, birdwatchers in Japan thought they were looking at the same little green songbird flitting through mountain forests on two far‑flung island chains. It took high‑tech DNA tests and careful ...

A team of biologists just discovered a new species of chiton, a marine mollusk that clings to rocks and feeds on algae. Acanthochitona feroxa is a spiky, armored sea creature that genetic analysis ...

While the average person may believe we’re losing species faster than we can discover new ones, that may not be the case. A recent analysis hosted at the University of Arizona has researchers arguing ...