As scientific knowledge evolves, researchers often find that their old assumptions — even ones underpinning centuries of work — no longer apply. The same principle is at play when it comes to ...

More than 2,000 years ago Aristotle, often referred to as the "first scientist," set out to create a method of naming, defining and classifying groups of biological organisms based on shared ...

A significant fossil find on the Newfoundland coastline could shed light on what may be the oldest physical evidence of reproduction in a complex organism. The Fractofusus fossils are clustered ...