A long-standing scientific theory linking the extinction of dinosaurs to the evolution of modern tuna has been challenged by ...

Arkansas weather has finally reached the melting point for even the most dedicated daytime anglers, but there's still a way ...

Far below the sunlight, where the ocean is colder, darker, and more hostile than almost anywhere on Earth, one predator ...

Tom has a master’s degree in biochemistry from the University of Oxford and his interests range from immunology and microscopy to the philosophy of science.View full profile Tom has a master’s degree ...

A long-held theory suggests that the asteroid strike that killed off non-avian dinosaurs — and most large marine predators — 66 million years ago ...

Scientists found the fourth type of transmissible cancer, and the first in a fish: a melanoma whose tumor cells spread ...

Over 300 million years ago, a minnow-sized fish died and fell to the bottom of a prehistoric swamp near the village of Trawden, Lancashire, in northwest England. The remains of this tiny fish—known as ...

Zorapterans, an insect group that includes angel insects, or ground lice, has defied phylogenetic categorization for decades. The big question was whether Zorapterans and Dermapterans (earwigs) were ...

By cannibalizing their siblings in the womb or avoiding meat-eating pliosaurs, fearsome carnivores like the megalodon ...

Although they're fish, tunas count among the rarified group of animals that can keep their bodies warmer than the surrounding environment. Their warm-bloodedness ("endothermy") gives them a ...

His superpower has always been speaking his mind – and his majestic new BBC show aims to shatter our ideas about life itself. The presenter talks mass extinction, spiders who dream and why people get ...