At some point, RNA must have replicated itself before the evolutionary arrival of DNA and proteins, and now we might know how ...

Most long-lived dogs are either tiny or an active herding ... got the dog recognized by the Guiness Book of World Records as the oldest dog ever at 30 years and 266 days old as of Feb. 1, 2023.

Scientists have may have successfully reproduced what's believed to be the first thing that ever lived on Planet ...

Move over, blue whale. You've been demoted. Scientists have discovered what they say could be the heaviest animal that ever lived on Earth: a gigantic ancient whale that may have been two to three ...

By Jack Tamisiea Standing nearly as tall as a basketball hoop and weighing as much as a grizzly bear, Gigantopithecus blacki was the greatest ape to ever live. For more than a million years during ...

The richest person ever is thought to have been an emperor with an accumulation of wealth often described as “unimaginable” or “incalculable.” The title goes to 14th-century African ...

For progress there is no cure.” This article appears in the November 2023 print edition with the headline “The Smartest Man Who Ever Lived.” When you buy a book using a link on this page ...

The song lyrics to "The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived" leaked ahead of the release of the new Taylor Swift album The Tortured Poets Department. Yikes! It sounds like Matt Healy may have ghosted ...

To figure out this mind-bogglingly high number, we need to know how many species have ever lived, dig deep into the fossil record and do a lot of math. When you purchase through links on our site ...