Scientists have uncovered a hidden world 3.6 kilometres beneath the Greenland Sea, where methane mounds and life thrive in complete darkness. The discovery could transform climate science and ...

Far below the reach of sunlight, a deep-sea robot descended to 1,300 m and sent back images of something that, on paper, ...

Nearly 3.7 kilometers beneath the Greenland Sea, scientists have stumbled on a hidden landscape of icy methane and dense ...

Environmental change doesn’t affect evolution in a single, predictable way. In large-scale computer simulations, scientists ...

When researchers lowered whale bones into the deep ocean, they expected zombie worms to quickly move in. Instead, after 10 ...

The year's top paleontological wonders ranged from a 540-million-year-old penis worm to a decades-old rodent impression.

Readers Edition. This is the (nearly) annual tradition of you, RPS readers, telling us where we went wrong in our annual ...

Mammals keep evolving into anteaters, eating only ants and termites, at least 12 times since the age the dinosaurs.

But even though Nixon seemed to be riding high, the worm had begun to turn. A few weeks later, the American Indian Movement ...