The bone fragments were once thought to be some of the oldest human fossils found in Japan.

A new analysis of a mummified "mermaid" found in a Japanese temple has revealed exactly what it is made from, and it's not what scientists thought.

The special, called “ Mermaids: The Body Found,” threw together “evidence” such as cave drawings, injuries to beached whales, and mysterious deep-ocean bloops to paint what it calls “a ...

New fossils of an ancient primate found in the Amazon may be the first monkey to have traveled from Africa across the Atlantic Ocean to South America. The fossils suggest that monkeys first ...

Rare ‘Absolutely Tiny’ Plant, Not Seen for More Than a Century, Found in Vermont The last time a botanist recorded a sighting of false mermaid-weed in the state was in 1916 ...

Two families on holiday in outback Queensland unearthed the bones of an ancient three metre-long swordfish-like carnivore predator with monstrous teeth which ate other large fish.