When people think of the most venomous animal in the world, they often imagine snakes, jellyfish, or scorpions, but the true answer is a small marine mollusk known as the cone snail. Despite its ...

Life on Earth started in the oceans. Sometime around 475 million years ago, plants began making their way from the water onto the land, and it took another 100 million years for the first animals with ...

The 300 million-year-old Tyrannoroter heberti had teeth specialized for eating plants, making it one of the oldest species to ...

Are aliens real? The question has animated conspiracy theories for decades and enthralled at least one former president of ...

Guinness World Records has officially declared a sock monkey the size of a semi-truck to be the largest sculpture of its kind ...

But the real truth is that alien life on other planets could be even stranger than floating balloons or amorphous organisms ...

A chunky, squat creature that roamed Earth 307 million years ago is helping scientists understand how plant-eating animals ...

These creatures are so fragile that the moment they are pulled out from the water, they collapse and disappear.

During the age of dinosaurs, most lizards struggled to compete with the giants that dominated land and sky. But one lineage took a different path, abandoning the shore and adapting fully to life in ...

The oldest known animal on Earth was oval-shaped, flat, and had a sort of central ridge. Remarkably simplistic, this creature inhabited the ocean depths! For ...

Behind a pretty shell sits a precision hunter whose toxins can stop a heartbeat, yet also power pain relief and new diabetes care.