"One of the most important takeaways from this research is that sharks have far richer social lives than we once assumed," lead author Natasha Marosi told IFLScience.

As humans expanded out of Africa and extended our dominion over the remaining continents, large animals began to go extinct wherever we reached. Known as the Late Quaternary Extin ...

It marks the first time a natural biological process has been engineered to transform plastic waste into a therapeutic for ...

Previous studies found two of the closest planets outside the Solar System around this star, but missed the really exciting ...

This world is part of a planetary system with four other planets, including a super-Venus and a possibly habitable ...

There is something like less than one chance in 10 billion that this kind of thing could occur," said one expert.

If you want to hide from predators, hot pink seems an odd choice, but there's method to this insect's madness.

Archaeologists have been studying the teeth of four straight-tusked elephants (three males, one likely female) excavated from the site. By examining the ratios of chemical isotopes preserved within ...

Shared in a new video posted on social media by the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), the young Laysan albatross hatchling, who popped out earlier in March, is the offspring of a male tagged N333, ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology ...

The evidence comes in the form of an "exceptionally preserved" collection of fossils recently found embedded in ancient ashfall at a site in Newfoundland, Canada. Known as Inner Meadow, the site shows ...

The majority of Bronze Age artifacts made of iron were forged from material with its origins in outer space. In fact, one ...