The idea that dinosaurs sported colorful feathers, once outlandish, has become conventional wisdom....

The rotten egg smell of fermented herring has been described as one of the world’s most repulsive...

Movies, documentaries, and museum displays have long shown Triceratops using their long horns and...

In a subtropical wetland in what is now Spain, a 5-ton dinosaur with a limp walked in shallow...

The asteroid that exterminated the dinosaurs about 66 million years ago left mostly smaller...

At this time of year Maryna Kravchenko, a population ecologist at Kharkiv National University...

About 330 million years ago in what’s now Montana, a squidlike creature died in a tropical bay and...

When scientists working with the La Brea Tar Pits wanted to bring extinct mammoths, ground sloths,...

On the shores of a great lake in the Cretaceous Period, dinosaurs, fish, and crocodiles lived and...

One in three adults in the United States has been arrested at least once, a strikingly high number...

Thousands of studies have linked the trillions of microbes living in and on our bodies to...

A good workout doesn’t just boost your mood—it also boosts the brain’s ability to create new...

Every day at sunset, a 3-million-bat whirlwind emerges from a cave and floods the night sky of the...

Human geneticists have mostly abandoned the word “race” when describing populations in their...

On a Sunday morning earlier this month, Girardin Jean-Louis attended the regular mass service at...

In December 2020, a 110-million-year-old dinosaur from Brazil stunned scientists with its furlike...

One of nature’s most impressive displays happens when animals—from buffalo bulls to betta...

Replacing table salt with a low-sodium substitute lowers the risk of stroke and other...

Remember that mouthwatering meal you had 20 years ago at that unforgettable restaurant? Old...

More than 100 Nobel laureates have signed a statement expressing outrage after the Chinese...