In 1998, paleoanthropologist Ronald Clarke and his research team discovered the skull of a previously unknown human ancestor ...

Ancient fossils from Moroccan caves, dated with rare precision, offer rare insight into early human evolution.

Other year-end selections are much larger than a zombie mushroom. In Peru, researchers described an acanth shrub that reaches ...

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in ...

Researchers at the California Academy of Sciences kept busy throughout 2025. Along with collaborators from across the globe, ...

In the ultra-sterile cleanrooms where NASA assembles spacecraft bound for other worlds, scientists have uncovered 12 ...

Alexander the Great dived into the unknown, facing giant crabs, pearls, and mysterious depths in a legendary underwater ...

Scientists from Mizoram and international collaborators have discovered a new non-venomous reed snake species, *Calamaria mizoramensis*, endemic to the state. Published in *Zootaxa*, the finding corre ...

A group of researchers from the California Academy of Sciences has discovered 20 potential new species of marine life in Guam ...

Scientists have identified a marine fungus that was previously unknown and is capable of killing toxic algae known to ...

Johns Hopkins University geneticists and a small army of researchers across the country, including students, are working to catalog the vast and largely unknown soil microbiome of the United States.

The researchers have tentatively assessed the species as 'Least Concern' under IUCN Red List criteria, noting its presence across multiple locations and the absence of major anthropogenic threats.