Researchers hope the "exquisitely preserved" fossil will cast new light on an enduring mystery in paleontology.

The mega-coral measures 34 metres by 32 metres – making it larger than a blue whale – and it is thought to be three centuries ...

Pando is the world's largest tree. Its name means "I spread" in Latin, and it does indeed spread: The organism has given rise ...

The 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy rose to fame through an incredible combination of circumstances ...

Analyzing a leg bone from a fossil site in Colombia, scientists have identified a massive “terror bird” that lived about 12 ...

A distant relative of spiders and scorpions is the new namesake of a Natural History Museum scientist.

They had mostly gone extinct by the Ordovician Period (485-443 million ... well-preserved trilobites and other organisms. The animals preserved here lived in a very hostile, dark, and low oxygen ...

"So it could be the biggest year of my life and it is that I'm grateful, but as long as I get to go home to that sweet little face and feed him dinner and cook for the next week, then I'm very ...

The Mukaab is projected to cost around US $50 billion and will serve as the centrepiece of a new urban district known as New Murabba. This expansive area will feature over 25 million square metres ...

The world's largest known prime number has been discovered, but we can't show it because it's so large it would take up 21 standard-sized novels to turn into text. Called M136279841, it comes to ...

It’s been nearly six years since math devotees discovered the last largest known prime number, but the bar has officially been raised by over 16 million digits. On October 21, the Great Internet ...

2. 3. 5. 7. 11. 13. 17. And so on. This is far from a comprehensive list of prime numbers—if we were to compile and write out an exhaustive list of all known prime numbers, this would be a truly ...