"The implication of our findings is that taking away the option to end a pregnancy exposes pregnant people to much greater ...

W hile we’re all sad that season five of Stranger Things has been and gone, fear not, the creatures of planet Earth have just ...

According to the Sussex Dolphin Project, the fishing net of a supertrawler can be 10 times the length of the ship itself at ...

Ötzi the Iceman was first discovered in 1991 when two hikers came across a dead body poking out of a thawing glacier in the ...

Eight days into his first boat command, Karl-Adolf Schlitt made a toilet mistake that would get the whole crew captured or killed.

We’ve been lucky to uncover countless dinosaur footprints over centuries of exploration, some of which represent the largest ...

Hallucigenia belongs to a group of worm-like marine creatures called lobopodians that lived during the Cambrian Period, ...

“EC 53’s layered outflows may lift up these newly formed crystalline silicates and transfer them outward, like they’re on a ...

T he human hand is often hailed as the “pinnacle of dexterity”, but there’s always room for improvement. In a new study, ...

Overshadowed by the fact that myllokunmingids had four eyes is their age. Prior to this discovery, the oldest preserved evidence of eyes with lenses was 13 million years younger, from the Burgess ...

For instance, it has been argued that as the modern human Y chromosome replaced the Neanderthal equivalent, Neanderthal males became sterile. Other research suggests that human genes might have messed ...

The distance an elephant can cover in the water is pretty staggering. A study in the Journal of Biogeography cites an account from 1856 in which an African elephant was forced to swim for 48 ...