Earth was not always the blue-green world we know today: the early Earth's oxygen levels were about a million times lower than we now experience ...

A chill in the air signals the start of a new academic year and the return of many University of Chicago students and faculty ...

Discover how once-magical travel destinations transformed into overwhelmed, unrecognizable shadows of their former selves—and ...

The Monterey Bay Aquarium has recently unveiled its highly anticipated deep-sea exhibit, offering visitors a rare glimpse into the mysterious world beneath... The post Monterey Bay Aquarium debuts ...

The surgery lasted three hours. Veterinarians make disturbing discovery inside suffering cow's stomach during surgery: 'If ...

New radio astronomy results reveal how galaxies exchange gas with the intergalactic medium – the raw material for stars and ...

Paleontologists discovered a new species of iguanodontian dinosaur that lived 125 million years ago during the Cretaceous period.

Spotted ratfish, or “ghost sharks,” have forehead teeth that help them grasp onto mates. It’s the first time teeth have been found outside of a mouth.

The deep sea is sometimes viewed as a barren wasteland. However, a recent discovery, the production of ‘dark oxygen’, is ...

The bumpy snailfish is one of three newly identified deep-sea snailfish species described by MBARI collaborators at SUNY ...

A violent storm swept across southern Germany some 150 million years ago, lifting two immature pterosaurs high above the ...

A young pygmy sperm whale was found struggling in the waters near Utila, a small island about 20 miles from mainland Honduras ...