More than 2,500 plant species have the potential to invade the Arctic at the expense of the species that belong there. Norway is one of the areas that is particularly at risk.

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Ancient magnetic fossils reveal that animal navigation using Earth’s magnetic field may have evolved far earlier than ...

Remains of an ancient Arctic rhino indicate that land mammals traversed the North Atlantic via land bridges, and did so much more recently than previously thought.

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It’s a phenomenon that was called the Homogenocene even before a similar term growing in popularity, the Anthropocene, was ...

Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

Octopuses break so many biological expectations that scientists still struggle to explain how they ended up this way through ...

Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences described 72 new species last year, from elegant birds to strange sea slugs.

If aliens from space can die and mourn their dead then they likely invented gods to worship. Because they missed their loved ones, and did not wish to die themselves, they invented an afterlife.

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...