New method reveals chemical signs of early microbial life in ancient Earth rocks, showing photosynthesis evolved much earlier than believed.

Therizinosaurus was long assumed to be a fearsome predator based largely on its enormous claws and theropod lineage. However, more complete fossil evidence revealed skeletal, dental, and pelvic ...

Megalodon usually gets all the attention when it comes to sea monsters, but ancient oceans were full of predators just as ...

NASA-supported scientists have resurrected an enzyme first used by organisms on Earth 3.2-billion years ago and, in the ...

For more than half a century, some of Earth’s strangest fossils looked like they had washed in from an alien world. Pillow-shaped impressions, quilted fronds and ribbed disks sat in museum drawers, ...

A mysterious 420-million-year-old ancient life form challenges evolution, defying classification as plant, animal or fungus.

Getting there: Qantas flies direct from Sydney to Johannesburg and Cape Town. From Johannesburg, it's a one-hour-45-minute ...

There’s no denying the allure of alien artifacts. Science fiction is awash in the material remnants of extraterrestrial civilizations, which surface in everything from the classic books of Arthur C.

It's a big universe out there, and while we're all for exploring it, a specific subgenre of science fiction movies has hinted that it might be a bad idea. Alien invasion movies have come in droves ...

Some of the earliest large organisms left fossils that seem almost impossible for their setting, fragile bodies captured in coarse, energetic seafloor sediments. A new chemical “fingerprint” in the ...

Scientists and NASA officials insist the object is a natural comet, not alien technology. Recent observations found no radio signals from the comet that would suggest it was artificial. The comet made ...

Ridley Scott's inimitable 1979 sci-fi thriller, Alien, expertly ratchets up the tension by not having the titular alien show up on screen until roughly an hour into the film. Following in Scott's ...