A better understanding of human smell is emerging as scientists interrogate its fundamental elements: the odor molecules that ...

Fossils offer a glimpse into Earth's ancient life, revealing the origins and evolution of complex organisms. Discoveries like ...

Scientists reconstructed 500 million years of evolutionary history to reveal which came first: colorful signals or the color ...

In 2015, two members of the Blue Beach Fossil Museum in Nova Scotia found a long, curved fossil jaw, bristling with teeth.

The Colonial Theatre is showing a special screening of the newly restored 1970s cult classic Tarpon, a seminal fly-fishing ...

Prehistoric Body Theater brings ancient creatures to life through dance in the U.S. premiere of "Ghosts of Hell Creek: Stone ...

New research shows contagious yawning is not only common in other species, and can happen between species, it can even be ...

Scientists estimate that the first generation of reptiles evolved between 320 and 310 million years ago, this group was later dominated by dinosaurs which paleontologists say they evolved on Earth ...

New findings may have solved the debate around why scientists have never found the missing link between dinosaurs and ...

Earth's earliest vertebrates are little more than squishy, wormy critters with no hard parts of their own. But after about a 20-million-year gap, suddenly the record shows vertebrates "that look like ...

While they didn’t find the earliest vertebrate fish, the researchers still uncovered something important. “For some of these fossils that were putative early vertebrates, we showed that they’re not.