How life struggled to survive on Zealandia, the Atlantis of the Southern hemisphere.

Another paradigm shift is needed for understanding human evolution. Following ladders and bushes, welcome the era of braided streams.

What has become of the Drake equation?

New evidence from Greenland: Humans, it seems, are less guilty of driving the ice age megafauna to extinction than previously thought.

Are we heading towards a new Grand Solar Minimum? Will reduced solar activity be able to dampen or even offset the global warming trend?

The enormous Quaternary avian megafauna of Madagascar, the "elephant birds", have intrigued natural historians for centuries, inspiring mythical...

When I started my PhD just over 20 years ago, my first brain-scanning experiment involved a simple short-term memory task:

In the outskirts of the solar system, beyond Neptune, a surprisingly diverse world of icy celestial bodies, spearheaded by Pluto, is looming.

Is there anything we can say about possible life forms outside of our home planet? Is there something like a blueprint for extra-terrestrial life?

The animal on my computer screen was almost too fantastical to believe: short ears and legs, tawny-brown body, inky stripes spilling across its...