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The Old Irish Goat isn't just part of folklore -- it's genetically linked to goats that lived in Ireland 3,000 years ago. Scientists analyzed ancient remains and discovered that today's rare breed shares its strongest DNA ties with Late Bronze Age .. ...

Earth's magnetic shield is shifting in dramatic ways. New data from ESA's Swarm satellites show that the South Atlantic Anomaly -- a vast weak spot in Earth's magnetic field -- has grown by nearly half the size of continental Europe since 2014. Even ...

Mars' frozen ice caps may be time capsules for ancient life. Lab experiments show that key building blocks of proteins can survive tens of millions of years in pure ice, even under relentless cosmic radiation. Ice mixed with Martian-like soil, ...

A lost cache of 250-million-year-old fossils from Australia has rewritten part of the story of life after Earth's worst mass extinction. Instead of a single marine amphibian species, researchers uncovered evidence of a surprisingly diverse community ...

Horses have a vocal trick no one fully understood until now. Scientists have discovered that when a horse whinnies, it produces two completely different sounds at the same time. One is a deep tone created by vibrating the vocal folds, similar to how ...

More than 40,000 years ago, Ice Age humans were carving repeated patterns of dots, lines, and crosses into tools and small ivory figurines. A new computational study of more than 3,000 of these Paleolithic signs reveals that they were not random ...

Scientists have proposed a surprising connection between solar flares and earthquakes. When solar activity disturbs the ionosphere, it may generate electric fields that penetrate fragile fracture zones in Earth's crust. If a fault is already ...

Deep in the Congo Basin, vast peatlands quietly store enormous amounts of Earth's carbon -- but new research suggests this ancient vault may be leaking. Scientists studying Africa's largest blackwater lakes discovered that significant amounts of ...

A newly identified ichthyosaur from the UK's Jurassic Coast is rewriting part of the prehistoric playbook. Nicknamed the "Sword Dragon of Dorset," the three-meter-long marine reptile lived during a poorly understood window of evolution when major ...

Researchers are engineering bacteria to invade tumors and consume them from the inside. Because tumor cores lack oxygen, they're the perfect breeding ground for these microbes. The team added a genetic tweak that helps the bacteria survive longer ...