Rather than resurrect extinct species, cloning technology could save those at risk of dying out, like the red wolf, but only ...

Researchers found LUCA, our earliest common ancestor, lived 4.2 billion years ago. It had a complex biology, affecting its ...

Syme then used these as his starting point for the color names, descriptions and actual color charts in Werner’s Nomenclature ...

In The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, science writer Henry Gee considers how long we’ve got, and how we can extend our ...

Corinthia Black studies the anatomical features of fishes and spiders to understand how life on Earth takes shape ...

Some species seem to live fast and die young. Others, though, “appear not to age,” says João Pedro de Magalhães, a molecular ...

The colossal mismatch between life’s observed sophistication and Darwin’s crude mechanism has scientists searching for ...

The fossil expert found love at first sight with trilobites.

The private company Colossal Biosciences claims to have resurrected dire wolves through genetic editing. The resulting trio, ...

In the mid-1980s, Kurt Vonnegut wrote a deeply satirical, allegorical novel called Galápagos in which an ageing hustler flees ...

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The 1920s were years of stark contrast across America. In larger cities, it was an era of excesses known as the “Roaring 20s.