The tallest plants alive today can grow to over 100 meters tall. But they evolved from ancestors that were just a few ...

The vampire squid genome shows it kept ancient features shared with squids, while octopuses gained major chromosomal changes.

While cleaning fossils retrieved from a cave on a Caribbean island, a researcher noticed something strange in the hollow ...

Each year, CBS News Chicago remembers some of the many people who made the city tick through a variety of talents and ...

Tens of millions of years ago, a diverse array of bird species soared, swam, and thrived amid their scaly reptile cousins—and ...

The Day Science Fell for One of the Most Absurd Hoaxes Ever On December 18, 1912, a group of distinguished gentlemen gathered ...

The identity of a Roman-era individual found in southern England has finally been resolved after scientists at the Natural ...

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

Twins are pretty rare, accounting for just 3% of births in the US these days. But new research shows that for primates 60 ...

The National Museum of Natural History’s new Pachycephalosaurus skull sheds light on enigmatic group of dinosaurs and will be ...

Convergent evolution essentially happens when animals and plants have to adapt to similar environments or ecological niches ...

Ancient pterosaurs may have taken to the skies far earlier and more explosively than birds, evolving flight at their very ...