There's a little thrill that comes when you read about people from long-vanished worlds. Their ruins whisper, their myths ...

A female Anopheles quadrimaculatus mosquito takes a blood meal from a host. For millennia, this mosquito has spread malaria.

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James Webb data reveal pristine gas irradiated by energetic light some 450 million years after the Big Bang — a sign it may ...

How did the earliest life on Earth build complex biological machinery with so few tools? A new study explores how the ...

The top predator prowling the seas during the age of the dinosaurs 100 million years ago may have been an octopus.

Extinct cephalopods might have been up to 19 metres in length and probably dined high up the food chain in ancient oceans.

Eastern Africa's Turkana Rift is both a hotbed for fossil discoveries of our earliest ancestors and a literal hotbed of ...

New fossil discovery reveals 535 million-year-old worms, annelids, that were already crawling and swimming, reshaping early ...