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On a temporary scale, the rings are coming back, but in the (much) longer term they’re probably a beautiful but transient ...

New research shows that the Hobbits’ wisdom teeth were small – roughly similar in size to those of Neanderthals. This means ...

Rice’s whale is the only baleen whale species that lives year round in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico in the continental ...

It’s part of our evolution, and it’s something we share with other mammals. It’s been well established that apes – our ...

A new study links the diet plan to “multiple aberrations of metabolic parameters”, which… doesn’t sound great.

The discovery resolves one major mystery in cosmology, deepens another and heralds the dawn of a new era for telescope ...

Roughly the size of a small human, the Chinese giant salamander is one of the largest amphibians in the world. These blob-like beasts are sometimes called “living fossils” as ...

The lonely whale caught the world's imagination and inevitably it ended up as a Twitter parody account. Slighty less ...

Largetooth sawfish look like a half-fish and half-chainsaw. Although their bodies are similar to a shark's, they are ...

Seal nails, like humans’, are made of keratin, meaning that these animals are similarly vulnerable to conditions like fungal infections which can affect nails and the nail bed.

Fossil skin like this is invaluable because, for starters, it’s the first time we’ve ever found soft tissues preserved for ...