Scientists discovered that ancient viral DNA sequences called MER11, once dismissed as genetic junk, actually act as ...

A shocking new study reveals humanity’s near-extinction event that nearly erased our species 1 million years ago. Only 1,280 individuals survived a dramatic population collapse triggered by ...

Donkey Kong Bananza marks the first major first-party release from Nintendo since the launch of the Nintendo Switch 2.

A common scanning method used to create ‘virtual copies’ of precious fossils could be erasing some of the crucial information held within.

Ancient trackways in seabed mud show animals moved purposefully 10 million years before the Cambrian Explosion.

Mammals have developed some unusual eating habits over the past 100 million years, but a new study has uncovered the ...

Two new papers analyze fossils found in Canada and Kenya, respectively—vastly different environments for the preservation of ...

What did long-necked dinosaurs eat—and where did they roam to satisfy their hunger? A team of researchers has reconstructed ...