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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Noting that animals were seen by the Aztecs as “food for the gods”, he explains that the Totocalli was no ordinary zoo, and that the creatures it housed provided the ritual lifeblood that enabled the ...

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

A former Harvard physicist has argued that God may have a physical location within the universe. Unfortunately for anybody hoping to have a word with the deity, according to Dr Michael Guillén God is ...

C rew-11 came down from the International Space Station (ISS) in the first-ever medical evacuation from space last week. The ...