A tiny Caribbean ant fossil, Basiceros enana, trapped in amber reveals a lost species and rewrites the evolutionary history.

A new bacterium found in Hawaiian seawater shows land microbes can reach the ocean through hidden groundwater flow.

A new book challenges us to work together as a community to grant sovereignty to forests and the animals who live there.

While painted as a family favorite, the zoo isn't always a safe or wholesome vacation spot, and you may want to skip it on ...

Scientists have discovered the world’s oldest salmon in Arctic Alaska’s Cretaceous fossil. During the Cretaceous Period, ...

In his debut book, the evolutionary biologist decodes the most exciting turning points in the effort to map what links all ...

It was a gray morning on the steppes of central Mongolia when paleontologist Tsogtbaatar Chinzorig spotted something glinting ...

This is the last of three blog posts associated with this week’s episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, which addresses life in the universe. Read the first and second here. Someday, in the not too ...

In a peer-reviewed analysis, scientists quantify amino acids before and after our “ last universal common ancestor .” The ...