Say what you will about Instagram, but the social media platform has undeniably contributed to the furthering of scientific ...

Our early human ancestors telling fireside stories may have propelled the development of speech by facilitating discussion of ...

The researchers were most interested in comparing how well the two groups performed a move they referred to as a “slam start” ...

Elephants are ecosystem engineers. They trample trees, loosen soil with their tusks, and can even create trails and watering ...

Far from being a brief stopover, the team says the site was a base camp, inhabited by prehistoric humans on and off for over ...

Dwarf reedsnakes of the genus Pseudorabdion, found in Southeast Asia, have a rather clever way of fleeing from trouble: They turn cartwheels until they’re safe from danger. See for yourself: Now, ...

Some 23,000 years ago, during the coldest part of the last ice age, people walked across the muddy margins of an ancient lake in what is now White Sands national park, New Mexico. The footprints they ...

England may have a reputation for bleak weather, but the Isle of Wight is closer to dreamy than dreary. The small, diamond-shaped island off the southern coast has sun-drenched beaches and ...

Planet Earth offers up stunning scenes every day, and nothing captures these moments better than the winners of the Natural Landscape Photography Awards. A total of 11,929 photographs were submitted ...

Day to day, most of us don’t give much thought to the fundamental fact of physics that light is traveling across the universe at nearly 671 million miles per hour. But a new simulator asks a fun ...

Along the way, though, they got a whole new look at previously recorded species as well. Case in point: An ROV cruising about 1,259 meters below the sea surface secured footage of a black swallower ...