Imagine someone digs you up in 15,000 years and discovers what you had for lunch the day that you died. That’s more or less ...

The asteroid that struck the Earth 66 million years ago devastated life across the planet, wiping out the dinosaurs and other organisms in a hail of fire and catastrophic climate change. But new ...

Baleen whales don’t have teeth. Instead, they use baleen, a filtering system that lets the largest animals on Earth feed on ...

For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...

A large comparative study of primate teeth shows that grooves once linked to ancient human tooth-picking can form naturally, while some common modern dental problems appear uniquely human.

The animals' extended lower jaws were seemingly made for scooping, but research over the past few decades has found they ...