Sometimes the most unbelievable places are the ones hiding in the most unexpected locations, and Onyx Cave in Cave City, Kentucky is proof that you don’t need to travel to distant continents to find ...

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

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

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 ...

When scientists with the National Center for Wildlife in Saudi Arabia were surveying caves in search of wildlife in 2022 and 2023, they came across seven naturally mummified cheetahs.

At a zoo outside Tokyo, the monkey enclosure has become a must-see attraction thanks to an inseparable pair: Punch, a baby ...

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 ...

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.

Fossils have a way of rewriting family trees, pulling back the curtain on creatures that feel alien and oddly familiar, like ...

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

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 ...