With copper-blue blood prized by modern medicine and a body plan older than dinosaurs, the horseshoe crab reveals how ancient ...

It’s time to travel back over 300 million years to the Carboniferous period, a time famous for vast rainforests on land and extraordinary life beneath the waves. Along this lakeshore, the rocks ...

Found in the Mazon Creek Lagerstätte, the well-preserved horseshoe crab shows more than 100 small pits across its shell, believed to be caused by a microbial or algal infection. This discovery not ...

A new analysis of enigmatic skulls from the Republic of Georgia suggest that Homo erectus wasn't the only human species to ...

A humungous shark that lived 115 million years ago surpassed the size of modern-day great whites, paleontologists discovered ...

Rain gauges did not exist millions of years ago. Instead, researchers turn to indirect clues left behind in rocks, soils, and ...

Despite multiple mass extinctions, the frilled shark has managed to thrive for 100 million years. Today, it remains one of ...

Scientists refine the timeline of sponge origins, showing soft-bodied ancestors likely evolved later than some chemical ...

Scientists watching the nearby Fomalhaut star system have directly seen two protoplanets smash together for the first time. Then, they saw it happen again. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

The world’s oceans are becoming dangerously acidic. A controversial proposal would raise the pH — by mixing chemicals into ...

In an investigation to find out what sparked life on Earth, researchers have discovered that RNA formed through surprisingly ...

Photos shared by NASA show what life looked like 250 miles above Earth in 2025, including images of hurricanes, the northern ...