It’s just as well conditions like this are not common, or 18th-century geologists might have never made sense of Earth's ...

I t is often remarked upon that the distribution of rings and moons around the giant planets of the Solar System – Jupiter, ...

A man born with Usher syndrome type 1b, a rare genetic disease that causes congenital deafness and progressive blindness, has ...

Much like the Wallace Line, this mysterious deep-sea divide in the Atlantic shows us that the ocean is not a continuous ...

D ormant cancer cells in the lung could be reactivated after a bout of COVID-19 or flu, according to new research. The ...

S ometimes, genetics likes to throw a bit of a curveball when it comes to coloration of animals. These quirks can tip the scales in favor of all white or all black fur, feathers, or even skin and can ...

A giant marine reptile that lived during the age of dinosaurs has been discovered in Germany. Retrieved from the world-renowned Posidonia Shale fossil beds, the newly named Plesionectes longicollum ...

Previous studies have identified three waves of gene flow between the two human species, with the first interbreeding event taking place some 250,000 to 200,000 years ago. A second hook-up then ...

Rachael is a writer and digital content producer at IFLScience with a Zoology degree from the University of Southampton, UK, and a nose for novelty animal stories. Laura is an editor and staff writer ...

Mauna Loa may hold the record of the largest active volcano, but it turns out it’s not the biggest overall – not by a long ...

“Every species on the planet self-medicates in some way or another,” Michael Huffman, a primatologist now at the Institute of ...