Advanced CT imaging of rare Devonian lungfish fossils in Australia and China is revealing unexpected anatomical details.

A bizarre fossil called Prototaxites, which was the largest life-form on land 400 million years ago, may have been a ...

Hundreds of millions of years before dinosaurs, the tallest things on land were not trees or animals but towering, trunk-like ...

New pieces have been added to the puzzle of the evolution of some of the oldest fish that lived on Earth more than 400 million years ago. In two separate studies, experts in Australia and China have ...

Bitcoin miners pivoted their data centers to AI. But a less visible shift is happening from the bottom up, as crypto's GPU networks find a second life in AI inference.

Prototaxites taiti’ was not a fungus but an extinct eukaryotic lineage, a study reveals, resolving a mystery that as ...

Spiders’ ability to spin webs may be one consequence of a really big genetic mistake. A close look at the genetics and development of spinnerets — spiders’ silk-making organs — reveals that an early ...

A new study published in Nature suggests that the neural foundations of spatial navigation—the brain's internal "GPS"—may have emerged far earlier in evolution than previously believed. The research, ...

Life on our home planet dates back to hundreds of millions of years before the arrival of the dinosaurs. Among the most ...

Residents in Worcester, Massachusetts, say they are frustrated over mounting snowbanks after a massive winter storm dropped ...