Scientists believe the Yedoma formation — an ice-rich, organic-laden permafrost formed during the Ice Age — helped sustain ...

Scientists revived a 24,000-year-old microscopic organism frozen in Siberian permafrost, offering new insights into how life ...

Scientists have recovered a 24,000-year-old worm-like creature called a rotifer from a sample of permafrost, as the Indian ...

Dr Peter Verheyen, Sola Society and Academy at Vienna University, discusses intriguing research and discoveries related to ...

Ice is a heck of a preservative, but keeping something alive for thousands of years is different than keeping your meat fresh ...

Scientists at EPFL have developed CenSpark, a fluorescent probe that makes centrioles and cilia visible inside living cells, ...

In the vast plume of the Amazon River, microscopic algae adopt a surprisingly flexible survival strategy: They combine ...

Some 80 million years ago, the late Cretaceous oceans were patrolled by 17-meter mosasaurs, long-necked plesiosaurs, and ...

Cyanobacteria—ancient microbes that oxygenated Earth and made complex life possible—are still revealing surprises billions of ...

In the brackish waters of the world's largest alluvial island, scientists found an organism no one had ever seen before.