80‑million‑year‑old snake fossil sheds light on why lizards lost their limbs and started slithering

Snakes are everywhere in our legends and mythology. Yet for most of us, our blood runs cold whenever we encounter these strangely undulating, scaly tubes of muscle slithering through the leaf litter.

Portugal's ancient giant bears shrank over thousands of years and humans may be to blame

About 22,000 years ago, a giant brown bear lumbered across what is now Portugal. The creature weighed around 385 kg (about ...
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Did the dinosaur-killing asteroid cause the evolution of tuna? It's not as simple as that

Think of a warm-blooded animal. You're probably picturing a cow or a dog, maybe an elephant. But how about a tuna?

Hollywood Vets Launch VertTV, Vertical Micro-Series Platform & Studio; Development Slate Includes ‘Fuller House’ Cast Reunion

EXCLUSIVE: The explosion of vertical content has just gotten a bit bigger. Hollywood veterans Jeffrey Schenck, Barry ...
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Ray-finned fishes evolved bioluminescence at least 27 chemistry and others by housing luminous bacteria, a repeated evolutionary experiment spread across deep-sea, inshore and ...

Below a few hundred metres, sunlight fails and the ocean becomes the largest dark habitat on Earth. Life responded by inventing light — again and again, in lineages that share almost nothing but the ...