Bdelloid rotifers may be the toughest,tiniest animal you’ve never heard of,but scientists say they can survive anything.
The rare,iron-based mineral previously had been found only in actual rocks.
The discovery of a prehistoric human skull in a cave in Italy has disproved macabre theories that Neanderthals indulged in ritual cannibalism – instead pointing to the prospect that they were eaten by giant hyenas.
Cave art discovered in Indonesia has been dated as the oldest yet discovered,and could point the way to even older discoveries.
For the giant,aloof dire wolves,the real threat to their existence can be summed up by the phrase"Summer is coming",according to new research published in Nature magazine.
The near-complete fossil of a 67 million-year-old adult triceratops will arrive in Melbourne in late 2021 after the museum won a multimillion-dollar battle to secure it.
High on the Tibetan Plateau,researchers unearthed a cache of stone tools,animal bones and DNA from the Denisovans,who lived across Asia between 45,000 and 400,000 years ago.
The dolphin-like marine reptile literally may have bitten off more than it could chew.
After painstakingly gluing together more than 100 fossil fragments,Angeline Leece and Jesse Martin stood back and gazed in awe. What they saw would rewrite humanity's family tree.
Humanity's once-in-a-lifetime chance to save the planet.
After almost 30 years of searching the universe,astronomers using WA’s state-of-the-art telescope have finally solved the mystery of “missing matter” tracing back to the Big Bang.