Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

If you think you can pop into Florida’s Antique Mall in Inverness for a “quick look,” you’re adorably optimistic and completely wrong. This sprawling wonderland of vintage treasures will swallow your ...

Anyone familiar with the search for alien life will have heard of the "Goldilocks Zone" around a star. This is defined as the orbital band where the temperature is just right for liquid water to pool ...

Homo erectus skulls from China’s Yunxian archaeological site revealed ages close to two million years—a million years older ...

A newly described Patagonian fossil reveals the evolutionary origins and global spread of the tiny alvarezsaur dinosaurs.

The fossilised bones of our ancestors remain silent. So, how can we possibly imagine what our earliest languages sounded like ...

A new study suggests that the deadly insects evolved their taste for human blood much earlier than previously thought, around when Homo erectus migrated into Southeast Asia ...

A resurrected ancient enzyme is helping scientists test how reliably Earth’s oldest rocks record signs of life.

The live-service genre has always been a competitive one, and some games are pushed out of it before they even really get off ...

Our single-celled ancestor lived in a world without plants, animals or oxygen-rich oceans. Yet, this seemingly simple microorganism took the first steps toward complex life. From this ancestor emerged ...

In a paper in Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, researchers argue that a 7.2-million-year-old femur from the Azmaka site preserves a blend of traits consistent with an early, transitional ...

Once-threatened koala populations in parts of Australia are showing surprising signs of genomic recovery, according to a ...