A Stone Age skull discovered in a cave in Italy is the oldest evidence of artificial cranial modification ever found in Europe.

Paleontologists in Germany have described a never-before-seen species of Jurassic marine reptile from 183 million years ago.

A new study has found that the devastating sea star wasting disease is caused by a strain of bacteria from Vibrio pectenicida ...

A large study of ME/CFS included more than 15,000 people and identified eight locations in the genome linked to the disease.

In a rare skywatching treat, you can see August's full Sturgeon Moon rise soon after sunset on both Saturday, Aug. 9 and ...

A handful of stone tools found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi has pushed back the date that human relatives arrived in the region.

The males of four newfound tarantula species have extremely long genitalia so that they can keep their distance from aggressive females during mating, researchers say.

A woman went to the hospital several times with the feeling that something was stuck in her eye. It turned out to be ...

Some visible signs of aging include wrinkled skin; gray or white hair; and dark patches, called age spots, on the hands and ...

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Researchers have built a robot crab that can compete in claw-waving displays with real fiddler crabs, but "Wavy Dave" doesn't ...

Six Russian volcanoes erupted shortly after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake stuck nearby, with a seventh possibly to follow.