The desolate, wind-swept desert of the Paracas Peninsula on the southern coast of Peru holds one of the most enduring mysteries of the ancient world. In 1928, the renowned Peruvian archaeologist Julio ...

What started off as a sci-fi horror turned into one of the best sci-fi comedies ever when it dropped 25 years ago. Being true ...

The out-of-Africa migration, in which ancient humans went on to inhabit every other continent except Antarctica, may not have ...

From pugs to Persian cats, human aesthetic preferences are driving a new wave of convergent evolution.

Typically, the information encoded in DNA allows organisms to develop, function, and pass traits across generations. Yet DNA ...

Asia is the largest continent on Earth, and its ecosystems are every bit as diverse as its size suggests. This huge continent ...

This second set of remains belonged to what the world would come to know as the Starchild Skull. For nearly a century, this artifact has served as a battlefield between those who believe in ...

Way down in the ocean depths hangs out a creature so weird you might mistake it for an alien. We already know octopuses are ...

Hidden beneath Arctic waters, beluga whales have long kept their family lives a mystery. By analyzing DNA from more than 600 belugas in Alaska’s Bristol Bay over 13 years, researchers uncovered a ...

The Long Hair Feline Club organized a cat show at the Acadien Social Club in Gardner, and Worcester Magazine was there for it ...

In these science fiction books, extraterrestrial beings are sympathetic, horrifying and everything in between. By James S.A. Corey James S.A. Corey is the pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, the ...

For many fans, the behind-the-scenes strife of Alien 3 is as well-known as its on-screen excess: This is the movie that almost permanently pushed David Fincher out of Hollywood. Fincher inherited a ...