I wish to acknowledge that I am sitting on the land of the Setalcott indigenous people in Setauket and I pay respect to the Setalcott people whose land is where I live. A principal feature of Long ...

Humans began sleeping as a way to partly help reduce DNA damage in nerve cells, scientists at Bar-Ilan University in Israel ...

The Greenland shark is thought to live for about 400 years but somehow its eyes appear to barely deteriorate, according to a ...

During these waves of mass extinction, most vertebrate survivors were confined to refugia, or isolated biodiversity hotspots ...

In a new Science Advances study, researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) have now proved that from this biological havoc, known as the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction ...

About 445 million years ago, Earth nearly wiped out life in the oceans. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...

Ahead of the opening of the new Sydney Fish Market this month, John Faulkner looks at a band of brothers that defied the odds ...

New photos from Afghanistan show a Taliban law banning images of people and animals is now being enforced across most of the ...

"We're not saying, and we can't say, that there's no life in Europa. What we're saying is that it's a harder proposition, ...

These "total monsters of fishes" are extinct today, though new clues about their lives come from CT scans and their closest ...

Cuttlefish can change colour in 200 milliseconds, as fast as a human can blink. Cuttlefish have W-shaped pupils, which are thought to help control the intensity of light entering the eye. Cuttlefish ...