I f astronomers had been walking the Earth 466 million years ago, they may have had something special to see. The moon and ...

The team of Professor Christof Niehrs at the Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) in Mainz, Germany, has discovered that a ...

A weird number of craters are located close to the equator, and the odds that this is random are incredibly low, researchers ...

A new study reveals the surprisingly convergent evolution in the inner ear of mammals. An international research team led by ...

The Earth: a ringed planet, much like Saturn, surrounded by a hula hoop of asteroids. The summit of Mount Everest: a tropical ...

Just seven millimetres long, flea toads are among the smallest vertebrates on Earth. Despite their diminutive size, their ...

The "fastest evolving vertebrate" title is hotly contested, but here are a few contenders.

Lungfish’ would have been a common sight in the Devonian period, about 400 million years ago. Remarkably, six species of this ...

No oncologist would wait for a patient's cancer to spread before treating it. Similarly, waiting to detect the potential loss ...

A new study suggests that conserving just 0.7% of global land could protect a third of threatened vertebrate species, ...

Life made the modern Earth as much as the Earth made life, a new book by a philosopher of consciousness argues. That dynamic ...

The superior colliculus is a midbrain region that is traditionally thought to help animals orient themselves toward important ...