The world's 'oldest' octopus fossil is not an octopus, people are speaking fewer words per day, humans evolved to heal ...

Sperm whales communicate through rhythmic clicks known as codas and scientists have discovered that each click comes at a ...

The sounds made by sperm whales are “one of the closest parallels” in the animal kingdom to the language of humans, a study ...

From fish and turtles, to hippos and crocodiles, about 43% of all known large freshwater animal species have been ...

Learn how analyzing “vowel-like” patterns in sperm whale clicks, uncovers one of the closest parallels to human language in ...

How and why the Cambrian explosion occurred has been the subject of debate ever since fossils of this remarkable event were ...

A chunk of bone discovered on a beach by a schoolgirl could be up to half a million years old, according to an evolutionary ...

A 300-million-year-old fossil once thought to be the oldest octopus ever discovered, has been re-identified as a different ...

One of Project Hail Mary's main characters is an alien rock who doesn't have a face. For screenwriter Drew Goddard, adapting ...

Humanity often ponders the nature of alien life, but rarely considers the inverse: what would extraterrestrials think of us?

The discovery of a new fossil site in China has revealed exceptionally well-preserved specimens from the Ediacaran Period.

AI models can analyze images that don't exist, new research shows, raising big questions about how they work and well they will perform in real-world settings.