An active underwater volcano off Canada's coast has revealed a vibrant deep-sea habitat, teeming with hundreds of thousands ...

MIT researchers traced chemical fossils in ancient rocks back to the ancestors of today’s demosponges. A team of geochemists ...

Scientists have found wolf remains, thousands of years old, on a small, isolated island in the Baltic Sea—a place where the ...

When a fearsome and ancient species emerges from the ocean, dramatically revealing themselves to humanity, an international ...

The vampire squid genome shows it kept ancient features shared with squids, while octopuses gained major chromosomal changes.

Before Ireland became the land of heroic warriors, shining gods, and legendary kings, it belonged to far older beings. They ...

Hannibal of Carthage (modern Tunisia), a great military strategist, led elephants through the Alps to defeat Rome.

Death Valley National Park spins much wondrous magic amid its many rocks. Learn more about the landscape and options for ...

The machine learning model also revealed only semi-terrestrial habitats for mesosaurs, a group of marine reptiles from 290 million years ago, but fully aquatic habitats for species of ichthyosaurs and ...

From the Minoan royal road to the Ridgeway, ancient roads still exist today showing how past civilizations built networks ...

Think you know Europe? You’ve ticked off Paris, Rome, Barcelona, and maybe even Amsterdam. That’s fantastic, truly. Those ...

The deep-sea's midnight zone, a realm of crushing pressure and absolute darkness, harbors extraordinary creatures. These ...