Researchers aboard the E/V Nautilus recently discovered four rare Palau nautiluses, ancient cephalopods also known as "living ...

A groundbreaking discovery was made in the deep waters of the Palau Islands when the research vessel E/V Nautilus encountered ...

After 15 years of exploration, scientists discover an intact prehistoric Palau nautilus in deep water, a fascinating marine ...

Neurobiological emergentism” explains how sentience—the subjective feeling aspects of consciousness—developed in ancient animals that evolved the first complex neural systems.

We’ve got experts Smithsonian magazine Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human ... shell of an extinct cephalopod to a Blue Origin ...

Discovery of 'Punk' and 'Emo' Fossils Challenges Our Understanding of Ancient Molluscs Jan. 8, 2025 — Researchers have unearthed two fossils, named Punk and Emo, revealing that ancient molluscs ...

Recent research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences explored this phenomenon using gyrating robots to mimic hoop-slinging motions. The findings revealed that successful ...

In an extensive interview, Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III spoke on the current political climate, the process of returning human remains from the Institution’s collections, the awe-inspiring ...

Evolutionary developmental biology is the comparative study of organismal development and how it has evolved. There is a particular focus on the genetic basis of phenotypic structures, how they ...

A 13-year-old girl holidaying near Batemans Bay on the NSW South Coast was bitten by a highly venomous blue-ringed octopus.