At first, they looked like muddy chunks of ancient shell. But these 20-million-year-old fossil oysters had been slowly ...

Rare 160-million-year-old sea spider fossils from Southern France look nearly identical to living species, revealing a body ...

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Using the Keck Observatory, astronomers measured the spins of dozens of giant planets and brown dwarfs orbiting distant stars ...

If an alien intelligence were hiding somewhere on Earth, many scientists suspect it might look something like an octopus.

Good things come in small packages, and that has never been truer than at Indiana's smallest state park, a treasure trove of ...

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New Mexico's carved hoodoos, expansive badlands, and rising mesas feel like they belong in another world, far away from the ...

Astronomers studying the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS say it could be a 12‑billion‑year‑old relic formed in near‑absolute‑zero ...

(Gerard Soury/The Image Bank/Getty Images) In an abyssal chasm yawning deep beneath the Indian Ocean, a vast 'city of the dead' has slowly been growing in the frigid darkness. Along some 1,200 ...

The first animals to crawl out of the muck for a life on land may have made the voyage on a lot of tiny legs. They were the millipedes, and 425-million-year-old fossils indicate they were among the ...