"Star Trek" is home to countless alien species, many of whom offer beloved characters. Some are not. We rank the 10 most ...

Mammals keep evolving into anteaters, eating only ants and termites, at least 12 times since the age the dinosaurs.

The research is mounting up that we might not be alone in this big wide world. So what's the likelihood that aliens are out ...

The textbook version of human evolution has long held that Homo erectus was the pioneering species to venture beyond Africa's borders around 1.8 million years ago. However, new analysis of five skulls ...

Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

Revolutionary fossil evidence from Ethiopia is challenging decades of scientific consensus about human origins. New discoveries suggest that the famous Lucy fossil, long considered a direct ancestor ...

Over the last century of cinematic sci-fi, movies like Planet of the Apes and The Thing have produced some of the most ...

One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet ...

Some feathered dinosaurs may have lost the ability to fly, revealing that the evolution of flight was far more complex than ...

A new study led by a researcher from the School of Zoology and the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History at Tel Aviv ...