Additionally, ancient humans may have ramped up their use of ochre. This naturally occurring pigment is composed of iron ...

Learn about the activation and deactivation of genes over long distances of DNA — an ability that emerged in comb jellies and ...

Blood is often associated with the color red, but in the animal kingdom, it comes in a surprising range of hues. From the ...

A new study suggests the platypus and echidna — the only egg-laying mammals — had a water-dwelling ancestor. The finding ...

Skeletal remains in a Roman burial ground in northern England were found to have lesions that looked suspiciously like bite ...

Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell signed a proclamation to make all Metro shelters "no kill" by the end of the year.

Named Vasuki indicus, this ancient ... alive today, usually grows only up to 6 to 7 metres in the wild. With its massive size, Vasuki comes close to Titanoboa, the largest snake ever found ...

A fossil trackway east of Still Bay in South Africa’s Western Cape province was found in 2018 by a colleague and was ... compared with fossil bones – it seems alive, as if the animal could have ...

The ocean floor teemed with small shelled creatures trying to stay alive ... animals. And instead of engineers, evolution drives the design. The significance of this discovery goes far beyond ...

Colossal Bioscience’s part resurrection of the extinct dire wolf through genetic engineering raises questions of how far we ...