Scientists found an “iridescent” creature with a short lifespan in a swamp in Kenya and discovered a new species, already critically endangered. Photo from Dirk Bellstedt In a glorified puddle ...

Thousands of years ago and even up to the Middle Ages, Paris was a city of marine life, the Seine—which is over 14,000 years old—was teeming with eels and salmon. But the municipal sanitation network ...

In the arid mountains of northern Oman, rocky caves hold pools of water. Naturalists were exploring these subterranean lakes in the Al-Hoota cave in 1980 when they discovered a white, eyeless fish.

A 62-million-year-old skeleton sheds light on an enigmatic mammal Date: March 11, 2025 Source: Yale University Summary: For more than 140 years, Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that ...

But a new study of the most complete skeleton of the species known to exist has answered many questions about the enigmatic critter — first described in 1883 by famed paleontologist Edward Drinker ...

Burial under the altar is reserved for only the most honored individuals. This is how the enigmatic skeleton was found, still wrapped in its eternal tools of torture, by a team of archaeologists ...

President Trump is planning to gut the work force while trying to turn the I.R.S. into a more political agency. The Trump administration is preparing budget cuts and further layoffs that could ...

The skeleton had mostly human-like features, but it also had the body proportions, jawbone and pitted occipital bone at the back of the skull that were characteristic of Neanderthals. At the time ...

A HUMAN skeleton has been found by a man landscaping his garden with neighbours describing the scenes like something "out of Silent Witness". Police are investigating after the remains were ...

The remains of a human skeleton have been discovered in the garden of a bungalow while the homeowner tried to landscape his garden. The grim discovery was made by a man giving his backyard a ...