Fossils from China's Chengjiang beds reveal that early vertebrate ancestors, jawless fish called myllokunmingids, possessed ...

Life on Earth may not have started here at all. A scientist says alien intervention is unlikely but still possible, reshaping the debate on our true origins.

The climate record holds some of its best warnings in stone, soil, and leaves. In a new study, scientists from the University of Utah and the Colorado School of Mines looked back to one of Earth’s ...

While idea may violate Occam’s razor, “it remains a speculative but logically open alternative,” says biologist Robert Endres.

All in all, this hasn’t been a bad week for America, and so this edition of the 5QT ought to be taken in the positive spirit in which it’s intended. As in, your author is positive that things ought to ...

Climb on board The Beagle and join Charles Darwin for adventures in Galápagos, meet an online vlogging family discovering the ...

If someone showed you photos of Onyx Cave without context, you’d probably assume they were concept art from the latest space ...

Devil’s Den Prehistoric Spring is the kind of place that makes you wonder what else might be hiding beneath Florida’s surface, and whether we should be checking under more hills just to see what we ...

A ‘smiling’ fossil has gone viral after being discovered by a tourist on Holy Island.

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday he is ordering federal agencies to begin “identifying and releasing” government ...

At a remote and barren Sahara desert site in Niger, scientists have unearthed fossils of a new species of Spinosaurus, among ...

For nearly five decades, Steven Spielberg has helped define what alien stories mean to movie audiences. Sometimes they arrive as cosmic miracles. Sometimes as existential threats. Sometimes as ...