Half a billion years ago, the first true eye emerged in Earth’s oceans. Fossils now reveal what that ancient crystal vision could actually see.

Millions of years ago, some prehistoric otters grew far larger than any species alive today. Fossils of the giant otter ...

Roughly 300 years ago, Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus set out to identify and name every living organism on Earth. He described more than 10,000 species of plants and animals prior to his death, per ...

More than 60 dinosaur bones have been unearthed from rocks at the site of a fossil dig on Victoria's Bass Coast. The region is renowned for its rich cache of prehistoric fossils and bones, some ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday hosted Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó for talks in Moscow. Szijjártó said ahead of the talks that he was in Moscow seeking ...

F or the first time, chitin has been identified in a Cambrian Period trilobite. The unexpected discovery could be useful for ...

Half a billion years after Earth’s first mass extinction, a quarry in China has cracked open a lost ocean world.

Calls for a global moratorium on deep-sea mining have gotten louder as the results of a five-year-long investigation have been revealed. Scientists have analysed samples from the seafloor in the ...

You know about celebrity perfume lines. You’ve probably seen a famous face on a tequila bottle. But celebrity parasitic worms ...

Researchers found dozens of tiny, see-through crustaceans in an Australian cave, including a new “giant” species measuring nearly 6mm (not pictured). NHAC NGUYEN AFP via Getty Images Researchers ...

A barnacle evolved into a parasite and drills into sharks in the deep waters of Norway to feed and survive in silence.

Scientists are naming new species after celebrities-and some choices may surprise you.