Frozen in time 112 million years ago, an entire ecosystem preserved in amber has been unearthed from a quarry in Ecuador.

"It's quite remote, quite pristine, and yet still showing this substantial decline in insects," Sockman told Alana Wise at NPR. "That doesn't leave a lot of other options other than changing climate ...

If you could, would you pay to live forever? Some Silicon Valley billionaires aren't just making tech products – they've set ...

To find out more, we studied about 400,000 UK residents aged between 39 and 73, and a further 13,500 Australian residents ...

78 million years ago, a 1.6 km asteroid slammed into what is now Finland, creating a crater 23 km (14 mi) wide and 750 km ...

MIT physicists have proposed a way to make a super sci-fi-sounding device: a neutrino 'laser,' which could help us probe the ...

Chimpanzees consume the equivalent of at least one alcoholic drink per day as they eat ripe, fermenting fruit, says a study out Wednesday that addresses one possible reason why humans are drawn to ...

An eye-opening experiment on cephalopods reinforces why it is so important for us not to underestimate animal intelligence.

New research suggests that a swarm of debris from an exploding comet left its mark by triggering the Younger Dryas, a period ...