New research finds that ocean-dwelling fish entered freshwater environments on several occasions, evolving enhanced hearing abilities in the process. When ancient marine fish transitioned from ...

New research in a North American “mummy zone” in eastern Wyoming reveals how giant duck-billed dinosaurs were preserved in striking detail.

Wyoming’s “dinosaur mummies,” once thought to preserve fossilized flesh, are actually detailed clay molds formed by microbes ...

A local resident stumbled upon the remains of the 19,700-year-old beast. Its record-breaking horn offers new insights into life in the Ice Age.

In most heart attacks, the cause is clogged arteries. Well, at least in men. For women, the situation is different. In a ...

Spooky-looking wooden figurines with quartzite eyes are 2,600 years old and may be linked to a Norse god. This set of carved figurines was discovered in the parish of Roos, on England's east coast.

A million-year-old skull from China, Yunxian 2, reshapes our understanding of human origins and ancient human relatives.

Understanding why certain small sounds or noises irritate and annoy us in our everyday life! You are sitting in your class, ...

For decades, predictions about a war with Iran carried an air of inevitability: Analysts warned a conflict would close the ranks of the Iranian military and political elite, unite the Iranian people ...

Sixty-seven million-year-old fossil fish discovered in Canada have complex middle ear bones — a Weberian apparatus — found in two-thirds of all freshwater fish species today. The structures give these ...

Imagine spending five years hearing everything as if your head was underwater with a pair of headphones on. You can feel the vibrations, but you’re unable to make out anyone’s words clearly. That was ...