The first known cases of accidental choking have been discovered, dating back 150 million years, when some opportunistic fish ...

For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early ...

Watch sea urchins being harvested in New Zealand and learn why this is also a form of pest control to save kelp.

A university student on a fossil-hunting field trip in Dorset made a stunning discovery: a 145-million-year-old jawbone ...

In a baffling show of generosity, killer whales across the globe are giving fish to humans—and scientists are racing to ...

Near a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo sat a temporary pond, doomed to dry up eventually. Inside swam a “rainbow” creature with “large” yellow eyes. Something about it caught the ...

On a floodplain in the Democratic Republic of the Congo sat a shrinking pond, doomed to eventually dry up. Inside its murky waters swam a scaly blue creature with “large” yellow eyes. Something about ...

While getting spectacular video of a massive great white shark, cage divers get pooped on by the ocean's most fearsome ...

This research highlights the association between AMY1 gene copy number and salivary enzyme activity, with implications for ...

A new fossil study reveals that teeth began as skin sensors, helping explain why modern teeth still react painfully to cold ...

In 5 To Watch, five writers from The A.V. Club look at the latest streaming TV arrivals, each making the case for a favored ...

In the shadows of Python Cave, Uganda, a leopard leaps from a guano mound—formed by bat excrement—and sinks its teeth into a ...