S tretching around 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) along western North America, the Tintina fault has long been assumed to be ...

Tibetan foxes are monogamous and typically have litters of two to five young after a gestation period of 50 to 60 days. Given the barren and treeless landscapes that they inhabit, the young remain ...

Fossilized teeth discovered in Ethiopia have revealed a new-to-science species of Australopithecus, a genus of early hominins that lived from the Pliocene to the Early Pleistocene ...

There are many ways for rovers and spacecraft to look for evidence of life, recent or ancient. Now, researchers report a new ...

The mineral suggests Mars may have been active for longer than we thought, with potential implications for life on the Red ...

The authors acknowledge the crystals they made, while “predominantly hexagonal diamonds” still contain “trace imperfections ...

They determined it was a new, juvenile-aged member of Mammalodontidae, a family of whales that lived between 30 and 23 million years ago, during the Oligocene. So far, fossils belonging to this family ...

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Yawning is seen in a diverse range of animal species, both those that live on land and underwater, but do all animals yawn? We wanted to know, too.

The good-ish news for any water-loving arachnophobes out there is that diving bell spiders are at least quite small, measuring between 8 to 15 millimeters (0.3 to 0.6 inches) in length, so could be ...

If and when completed, it will be significantly longer than that of the world’s current longest suspension bridge, the 2,023-meter (6,637-foot) long 1915 Çanakkale Bridge that connects the European ...