The Mesozoic ocean may have been one of the most dangerous places in Earth’s history, filled with predators that still feel ...

Turtles today are often slow-moving, modestly sized creatures, but their ancient relatives were quite different. Long before ...

As the data center buildup outpaces the energy transition, modern technology is ever more dependent on oil, gas and coal deposits that took millions of years to form.

For Kiwi families travelling with children, I strongly recommend threading a stopover on Sentosa Island into your long-haul ...

Turns out jellyfish and sea anemones – among the ancient creatures with a nervous system instead of a brain – have a very similar sleeping routine to our own. A new study published in Nature ...

A new way of analysing fossils has revealed more about animals and environments of ancient times, when humans were evolving.

The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where ...

Unique ceramic figures along with a 2,500-year-old special type of water-basin have been discovered in the Ancient Greek city ...

For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...

A new Nature Communications study has tracked these lulls in cassiopea jellyfish, which belong to a 500 million year-old ...