First spotted in 1889, the Barbados threadsnake is the smallest known species of snake in the world. When fully grown, it’s ...

For a few individuals, scientists found genetic material from cancerous tumors in blood samples taken years before they were ...

As the research participants thought about future scenarios, optimists displayed similar neural patterns, but pessimists ...

The country previously left the agency for two brief stints—once from 1984 to 2003 and again from 2017 to 2023. The newly ...

A clip recorded in Myanmar in March reveals a curved path of the fault slip, which can help scientists better understand the ...

The trick that plays with awareness of one’s own limb appeared to fool all six of the cephalopods tested in a series of ...

Mazloomi’s creative practice has come a long way since that first quilt, which she still has (and asks her children not to ...

But T. rex was also the last of its meat-tearing family. The earliest tyrannosaurs evolved about 166 million years ago. In ...

During the Triassic period nearly 250 million years ago, a small reptile scurried after insects in the canopy of a lush ...

The ice cores could offer clues about a period known as the Mid-Pleistocene Transition that has long puzzled scientists ...

Preserved in tan stone, the fossil of Mirasaura included much of the ancient reptile’s skeleton and a feather-like fan that ...

Zoonoses—diseases that spread from animals to humans—began to gain prevalence some 6,500 years ago with the rise of animal ...