A huge 300 to 500-year-old coral reef has been discovered near the Soloman Islands by the National Geographic Society's ...

Ephedra seeds found in an ancient burial pit may be the earliest evidence yet for the medicinal use of plants.

Scientists have discovered a gigantic coral in the Pacific, near the Solomon Islands (in western Oceania), which is about 300 ...

The history of a major animal group, composed of millions of species of insects, arachnids, and nemotodes, has been elusive -- until now. A team has now identified the oldest known ecdysozoan in the ...

The invasive sea lamprey was chomping through the North American region’s native fish, until scientists made a fortuitous discovery.