It's that time of year again – and my personal favorite corner of science to look back on – when we recap the many ...

Following speculation that comets could have been alien spacecrafts, more and more experts in the field are convinced that ...

The year's top paleontological wonders ranged from a 540-million-year-old penis worm to a decades-old rodent impression.

TOKYO – Alligator weed, an invasive plant species native to South America, is spreading in rivers and lakes in Japan. The ...

The world still holds its secrets. Hidden under wet rocks, in the ocean’s twilight crevices, and in the minutiae of the ...

A T. Rex missing link, a spike-fossil and a raptor still eating its dinner are just a few of the interesting dinosaur ...

Researchers have identified over 70 new species, from ancient dinosaurs to living mammals and insects preserved in amber ...

One that caught attention from many was a type of sea mollusk that washed ashore on South Padre Island in late May.

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

In South Africa there’s a little-known ecosystem, containing more plant species than the entire Amazon, plants that are found ...

New species are being discovered faster than ever before — at a rate of more than 16,000 every year, suggests a new study.

The search for life on Earth is speeding up, not slowing down. Scientists are now identifying more than 16,000 new species ...