Gypsum is a soft, translucent sulfate mineral that allows just enough light to penetrate for photosynthetic organisms to survive inside, while also protecting them from being desiccated or exposed to ...

A lost cache of 250-million-year-old fossils from Australia has rewritten part of the story of life after Earth’s worst mass extinction. Instead of a single marine amphibian species, researchers ...

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Popular culture imagines aliens as creatures made of flesh and bone — but some researchers argue that advanced civilizations would likely evolve beyond biology. Given millions of years of ...

The still unexplained encounter happened at Salt Fork State Park in Guernsey County, Ohio. The men have not spoken publicly about the incident and want to remain anonymous but for the first time an ...

A viral Obama podcast answer about aliens prompted Trump to accuse him of revealing secrets and promise to release UFO files ...

Psychedelic action platformer Ultros brings something different to the Metroidvania space, and it grew into a real favorite of mine.

Across islands, grasslands, forests, and swamps, we search for reptiles that are not the largest on Earth - but the largest of their own kind. From New Caledonia’s giant gecko to Madagascar’s massive ...

A spiky, big-eyed gecko found clinging to canyon walls in southern Iran turned out to be a completely new species — genetically distinct from every known relative by a staggering margin. Researchers ...