Shrimplike organisms that linked together in single-file rows 525 million years ago represent a bizarre and previously unknown type of animal grouping, scientists say.
The biggest land animals that ever lived grew huge and were an evolutionary success in part because they swallowed large quantities of food whole, new research suggests.
People may have lived in Florida over 10,000 years ago—earlier than previously thought—according to evidence uncovered by National Geographic researchers.
The annual Ig Nobel Prizes are given to scientists whose work made readers both laugh and think. This year's honors went to research on everything from puzzling placebos to spermicidal soda.
A reproduction of the 66-foot (20-meter) long dinosaur, known for its long neck and small brain, will go on display this week at Rio de Janeiro's Science House.
A closer look at a 385-million-year-old fish fossil shows the fish had digit-like stubs in their fins--"dismissing" a theory that hands and feet evolved randomly, experts say.
The remains of mussels, fish, and other marine life found in two caves on Gibraltar suggest that Neanderthals, like modern humans, actively sought out seafood.
With towering glass "sails" and fiberglass tunnels on the seafloor, a futuristic underwater museum in Alexandria may bring visitors deep into the site of Cleopatra's sunken palace.
Cleopatra's palace sank long ago, but visitors to Alexandria, Egypt, may eventually walk among the palace's ruins via the world's first underwater museum.
