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

In 1957, a 300-foot craft landed quietly in Virginia. Out stepped a man in a metallic jumpsuit who simply said, “I need to see the president.” His name? Valiant Thor. He claimed to be from Venus—and ...

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.

About 300 years ago, Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus set out on a bold quest: to identify and name every living organism on ...

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...