Scientists discovered true teeth growing on the head of the spotted ratfish, a distant shark relative. The toothed structure, called a tenaculum, helps males hold onto females during mating. Genetic ...

A remote island at the very northern tip of Australia has been revealed as a tropical refuge for three species new-to-science ...

It’s rare to find one new vertebrate species in Australia, let alone three. Associate Professor Conrad Hoskin, who led the ...

Long before humans built cities or wrote words, our ancestors may have faced a hidden threat that shaped who we became.

If you look closer at the building stones, tiles and pavements of the big city, you can find a hidden world of geology and ...

Researchers have sequenced the South American lungfish genome, uncovering a DNA content nearly 30 times larger than the human ...

Controversial evidence hints that complex life might have emerged hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to three scientists who discovered how our bodies keep this ...

Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS) in Japan have discovered how animals sense that things smell pleasant ...