A team of researchers say that a puzzling, spire-shaped organism that lived 400 million year ago is like no type of creature ...

As a shark tooth and fossil hunting enthusiast, I often have people ask me why I find fossils so fascinating. To me, the answer is simple: I’m astounded by the fact that I can walk along the beach in ...

Australian scientist Yi-Kai Tea is investigating one of the weirdest realms of the ocean – and it’s right on Australia’s ...

It's Saturday! This week, in an eminently practical analysis of the Boltzmann brain conjecture, physicists put constraints on ...

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Watch out, Jaws — your days are numbered. Money-hungry fishermen and sellers are ignoring international regulations in favor of big profits in the illegal sale of shark fins — and new research led by ...

These “total monsters of fishes” are extinct today, though new clues about their lives come from CT scans and their closest living relatives: the big-eyed ratfish of the deep sea Strange fossils ...

Habitat loss, deforestation, the illegal wildlife trade and climate change are pushing these extraordinary species towards extinction.

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