Science

Thousands of bone fragments discovered in a cave on the Tibetan Plateau in China are offering rar...

You might call it the “swamp thing.” About 280 million years ago, a large creature built somewhat...

LONDON (Reuters) — The fossilized remains of a plant-eating dinosaur estimated to have roamed the...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The planet known as HD 189733b, discovered in 2005, already had a reputati...

LIMA (Reuters) — Archaeologists in Peru have discovered the remains of what are believed to be we...

PARIS (AFP-Jiji) — Athletes at the Paris Olympics later this month will be tested for performance...

A project to artificially mass-produce glass eels could reduce production costs to ¥1,800 per fis...

Long ago in the skies above the shallow Eromanga Sea, which once covered what is now arid inland ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — About 78 million years ago in what was then a subtropical coastal plain — ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) — A Brazilian scientist has identified fossils of a small crocodile-like repti...

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) — An Argentine scientific institute has cracked the genome of the leafhopp...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Limb amputations are performed by surgeons when a traumatic injury such as...

Afraid you might “offend” when you are out in public on a hot day? There may be relief in store t...

About 4,000 years ago, the last of Earth’s wooly mammoths died out on a lonely Arctic Ocean islan...

Living among a small band of Neanderthals in what is now eastern Spain was a child, perhaps 6 yea...