Hyderabad: A new genomic study has shed fresh light on how mites and ticks evolved, and how parasitic species emerged over ...

At first glance, the insect trapped in golden resin looked like any other tiny victim of deep time. Only under close ...

At first glance, an anteater looks like a creature imagined by someone mixing parts from different animals. It has a long, ...

Scientists already knew that the pair of shallow coastal ocean dwellers keep very different schedules of downtime: The ...

This study from MIT explores eye evolution through AI simulations, uncovering how different tasks shape visual systems and ...

Discover the largest saltwater crocodiles ever recorded. Would you believe that number one could have grown even bigger?

Shielded from development and agriculture, many archaeological sites from ancient Greece have now become inadvertent safe ...

After pulling my kayak ashore, I walked along the empty beach for an hour, collecting shells and fragments of red coral. I ...

Scientists say they succeeded for the first time in wiping out an entire population of malaria-carrying mosquitos in the lab using a gene editing tool to programme their extinction.

This spider doesn’t run or hide when danger strikes. Instead, it builds a fake version of itself — and predators fall for it.

A historical bee collection from the Oxford University Museum of Natural History has been newly researched and photographed.

The modern world offers an abundance of convenience foods. But our Stone Age physiology isn't built for modern diets, which ...