After consulting texts on bird anatomy, O’Connor realized what they were: oral papillae. “Imagine if the flesh on the roof of ...

Far below the waves off western France, divers have mapped a vast Stone Age wall that has survived since around 5000 BC, a ...

Returning to the country after many years, Mary Lussiana sets out on an epic expedition taking in the Daintree rainforest, ...

Ancient magnetic fossils reveal that animal navigation using Earth’s magnetic field may have evolved far earlier than ...

Rammed Earth House, an experimental Wiltshire home by Tuckey Design Studio, underlines the durable, energy-efficient material ...

Riaan Manser visited St Helena for a week – an island with an overwhelming “sense of place”, the most unique rock pool he’s ...

More than 3.5 billion years ago, the Earth was not the hospitable world we know today. The atmosphere lacked oxygen, the seas ...

Bulgarian construction workers unearthed the world's oldest gold treasure in 1972, dating back to 4600 BC. The Varna Necropolis revealed over 13 pounds of meticulously crafted gold artifacts, ...

Neutrino particles have extremely small masses, yet there are so many of them that they carve out the large-scale structure ...

Grasslands are vast, open landscapes where grasses, sedges, and wildflowers dominate the terrain rather than trees. They ...

A 2020 astronaut photo shows the oasis town of Jubbah lurking within a paleolake in the wind shadow of Saudi Arabia's "two ...

Documentaries are always a hot commodity at the Sundance film festival, and this year in the premieres category, I was able ...