Zealandia sits in the Southern Hemisphere and is around 5 million square kilometers (1.9 million square miles) big, but 95 ...

T he animal world is full of contradictions, from tiny mouse-deer that are neither mice nor deer, to vampire squid that ...

Because of potential water and a source of heat, Olympus Mons has been suggested as a place to look for potential alien life; ...

Yet these primordial grave-diggers weren’t quite like us, and new research reveals that a young child from the world’s oldest ...

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I n most (but not all) cultures, it’s incredibly rude to ignore a sneeze – it has to be publicly acknowledged with a go-to ...

You might not expect there to be many health lessons from an animal so distant from us in time and evolution, but new ...

Gracanin told IFLScience that most of what we know about greater gliders is based on people peering up 15-40 meters (49-131 ...

The work of Everett Senior shook up the world of linguistics and aroused a fair amount of controversy. He used the Pirahã ...

They found that the green roofs can trap over 97.5 percent of microplastics during a heavy downpour of rain. Most of the ...

These are the unfortunately final moments of victims of the Uloboridae spiders, a family of orb weavers that, unlike almost all other spiders, don’t inject venom. Without their own built-in lethal ...

S cientists have developed the longest and most complex simulation to date of a binary neutron star collision that results in the formation of a black hole and a jet. The breakthrough will massively ...