A newly discovered Himalayan spider with a striking smile-like pattern is reshaping what scientists thought they knew about ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

At first glance, bats and birds appear remarkably similar. Both dominate the skies, possess wings, and have evolved the ...

In this week's Science for All newsletter, Divya Gandhi explains how ants, dolphins and birds use inter-species cooperation ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain ...

A landmark study of several butterfly lineages and a day-flying moth in South America shows that convergent evolution — when unrelated species arrive at the same solution — isn’t just a coincidence; ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Convergent Therapeutics Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing next-generation alpha-emitting radioantibodies for the treatment of prostate cancer, ...