Researchers studied data from a million people and found evidence that a height gene shared by both sexes is amplified in men. By Gina Kolata Men are taller than women, by an average of about five ...

New insights into the flying capabilities of a nonbird dinosaur were drawn from an unusually well-preserved specimen known as the Chicago Archaeopteryx. By Asher Elbein In 1861, scientists ...

Learn more about a time period marked by an intense burst of evolution. 3 min read The Cambrian period, part of the Paleozoic era, produced the most intense burst of evolution ever known.

Palaeontology is the study of prehistoric species, mostly ones that are extinct. It focuses primarily on fossil data, using a variety of physical, chemical and biological techniques to analyse ...

A recent study shows that marine oxygen levels were crucial to the evolution of early Paleozoic trilobite body size, suggesting that oxygen may have influenced the evolution of other animals' body ...

The Museum is scanning its collection of whale specimens so that the data is easier to handle and accessible to researchers around the world. For the first time, scientists have an image of what ...

University of Portsmouth physicist Melvin Vopson proposes a new way to think about gravity — not just as a pull, but as something that happens when the Universe is trying to stay organized. The ...

We have a new Alien: Earth teaser trailer, especially for Alien Day 2025. It’s not actual footage from the show though, it’s another promo teaser. The 43-second teaser shows various life forms ...

Its mouth was a tooth-ringed circle, a bizarre structure shared with other radiodonts, capable of crushing soft-bodied animals like trilobites or worms. Midway down its body were wide, undulating ...