The discovery of a 2,000-year-old building site in Pompeii reveals the raw ingredients for ancient Roman self-healing ...

While modern octopuses have DNA that consistently gets reshuffled, resulting in some chromosomal mixing, the researchers found that the vampire squid's genome kept much of its ancestral, squid-like ...

Astronomers used major telescopes across the world to probe a cosmic explosion 8 billion light-years from the solar system.

Turtle shells evolved over the course of 300 million years, but self-defense wasn't the initial driver, researchers think.

In December 1911, Roald Amundsen and his crew reached the South Pole, beating his rival, Robert Falcon Scott, by 35 days.