This 375-million-year-old fish, the closest known relative of the ancestors of limbed animals such as humans, likely evolved ...

A newly identified clam eats limestone rock, turning it into sand.

Some dinosaurs were scaly, some were covered in bony plates of armor, and others were even feathered. But now paleontologists have discovered a new species with a type of skin covering that's never ...

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People are falling for AI videos of elephants saving tigers and it is completely distorting our understanding of how nature actually works.

Of all the armour that survives from the Renaissance period, Henry VIII’s horned helmet is arguably the weirdest. This helmet ...

Fungi have become Hollywood’s go-to bad guys. But as yet another story focuses on Cordyceps, Nick Crumpton says we are missing a chance to broaden our fictional horizons ...