We know the main reason that the age of the dinosaurs came to an end: an asteroid impact on the Yucatán Peninsula some 66 million years ago. But how the dinosaurs’ reign began is far less clear—and ...

Nudibranchs look like fragile, colorful decorations drifting across coral reefs — but their biology tells a different story.

A 307-million-year-old fossil reveals that some of Earth’s earliest land animals were already experimenting with a ...

When it comes to the pace of AI evolution, my view is that we suffer from evolutionary blindness. We can't comprehend the reality unfolding before our eyes, because we didn't evolve to see it. Despite ...

The combustible sedimentary rock, better known as coal, was not only crucial to the onset of advanced technology here on Earth, but it should also be key to the development of advanced E.T.s residing ...

Fascinatingly, though, the introductory scenes of “Series Acclimation Mil” also answer a question viewers have wondered ever ...

All species alive today, from chimpanzees to bacteria, are cousins that each have equally long lineages, rather than ...

OLLOBOT reports on the rise of cyber-pets, AI-driven companions reshaping relationships in a digital age, signaling evolving ...

A mysterious 420-million-year-old ancient life form challenges evolution, defying classification as plant, animal or fungus.

Thanks to theorists like Ruth Murray-Clay, astronomers are decoding how distant planets form, evolve, and maybe even host life. When Ruth Murray-Clay entered graduate school, only a handful of ...

“The odds that we find something on Mars or Europa are high,” said Jack Pallotto, senior in LAS and president of the Astrobiology Club. “But whether I’ll be there? That’s a different question.” Here ...

Science fiction often shows aliens with human features like eyes, limbs, and faces. But science has a reason for questioning this idea. Through convergent evolution, similar environments and physical ...