Evolution has repeatedly pushed different crustacean lineages toward the same broad, compact, crab-like body shape, a pattern ...

An uncrewed boat dropped off an armed robot on Russian occupied Kinburn Spit in a small historic first for drone warfare.

Efforts to revive the thylacine and woolly mammoth are forcing conservationists to face a long-overdue debate over what kind ...

Tasmanian devils face extinction due to contagious cancers and shrinking genetic diversity. Scientists are mapping genetic ...

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown fossil goose that challenges a decades-old theory about the evolution of New ...

A new analysis suggests the evolution of human body size was marked by a major turning point rather than gradual growth.

A 150-million-year-old bird fossil, Zhengheornis, reveals the first step in the evolution of the short tails seen in modern ...

Two marsupial species that scientists believed had vanished roughly 6,000 years ago have been photographed alive in a ...

During the Ediacaran period, the critter wriggled around on the ocean floor of what’s now South Australia and preferred to ...

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Artistic representations of ancient humans often show large men with bulging muscles – but our ancestors were actually ...

Why do beaches today have seashells from clams and snails instead of brachiopods? A new study suggests the answer lies in ...