The search for life on Earth is speeding up, not slowing down. Scientists are now identifying more than 16,000 new species ...

With studies of fossilized bones, gut contents, eggshells and more, paleontologists revealed new and captivating details ...

With the human family tree now more like a hedge and twice as many known moons, Bill Bryson talks to the New Scientist ...

About 300 years ago, Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus set out on a bold quest: to identify and name every living organism on ...

Hidden in the darkness of a remote limestone chamber, a cluster of ancient finger marks has forced archaeologists to confront ...