For centuries, humans have told stories about the legendary Kraken, a huge octopus that coud sink ships whole. But roughly ...

Arguably one of the most curious ancient human relatives is Homo floresiensis, a 3-foot-tall species that lived on the ...

A new dangerous invasive species — the ocher flatworm — has been found in the Nordic countries. The species has not yet been ...

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But exploring the evolutionary roots of these diverse maternal methods is tough, because reproductive tissues decay quickly ...

Researchers working with the Smithsonian poured over 10,061 artifacts and other elements to determine whether tiny ‘Homo ...

A siphonophore—a colonial marine invertebrate related to the venomous stinging Portuguese Man-o-war—is scanned using Deep ...

The American oyster once flourished along Maine’s coast. The proof is in the huge oyster middens — piles of discarded shells — on the banks of the Damariscotta River. Scientists believe these middens ...

Given so little beyond function — showing up, doing damage and fleeing — he serves more as a plot mechanism rather than a ...

Researchers fed a Komodo dragon a goat to figure out if Homo floresiensis truly were the hunters they were originally thought to be.

An experiment that involved feeding a dead goat to a Komodo dragon as well as an analysis of thousands of ancient bones ...

Instead of hunting big game or wielding fire, the hobbit-like hominin Homo floresiensis likely scavenged leftovers of prey ...