As I highlighted in a recent paper, an extraordinary range of adaptations have evolved in aquatic plants for life beneath the ...

More than 200 million years ago, life on Earth was experimenting with new forms. The Triassic period gave rise to animals ...

Archaeologists have long pictured prehistoric hunters taking down mammoths and other megafauna using the atlatl, a handheld spear-throwing device that uses leverage to achieve greater velocity and ...

For decades, archaeologists have assumed that members of the Palaeoindian Clovis culture used a weapon called an atlatl to ...

A new statistical study challenges one of archaeology's longest-standing assumptions, raising fresh questions about how North ...

How does a stripy tree snail hide from hungry birds? The Hypselostyla camelopardalis from the Philippines and Reinia variegata from Japan have both evolved a form of dynamic camouflage to survive.

A newly discovered Himalayan spider with a striking smile-like pattern is reshaping what scientists thought they knew about one of the world's most recognizable arachnids. A tiny spider with an ...

The idea that octopuses might be aliens emerged from the theory of panspermia (Stelele 2018), according to which life on Earth is not entirely of terrestrial ...

Evolution is always happening — so why can't we see it? A biologist explains the timescale problem, election pressure, and ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from China reveal that bryozoans were already thriving during the Cambrian explosion.

Tiny fossil teeth from Alaska are changing how scientists view mammal life and migration in the ancient Arctic.