Deep sea holds alien-like species. The frilled shark, a living fossil, remains a mystery. Its unique anatomy includes six frilled gill slits and a trident-like mouth. This predator hunts with stealth, ...

Erich von Däniken, who has died aged 90, was among the first writers to suggest that human civilisation, and even human ...

Researchers across biology, philosophy, and AI are split on what counts as a mind—and whether today’s systems qualify.

Mosquitoes transmit diseases like dengue, Zika, and malaria, making this shift a significant public health concern.

Wondering about the most dangerous birds on Earth? We've compiled this list of the Top 20 scariest birds — some that have ...

Underworld: Evolution assured its series' survival by dropping several of the previous movie's signature elements.

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

In what is now approaching an honest-to-goodness tradition, below we've put together our list of the many games we're most ...

Consciousness could be a fundamental part of reality, like gravity or matter, according to this controversial theory.

Dogs began diversifying thousands of years earlier than previously believed, with clear differences in size and shape appearing over 11,000 years ago. A massive global analysis of ancient skulls shows ...

Ever since the James Webb Space Telescope was launched almost four years ago to the day, the star of space exploration until that time, the Hubble telescope, kind of took a back seat. From time to ...

Yinxu - known as the last capital of the Shang - is one of China’s most important archaeological sites, famous for oracle bone inscriptions and monumental burials. The new pits add another layer: not ...