At least 60,000 years ago, a group of petite early humans called Homo floresiensis lived on a remote island in what is now Indonesia. These diminutive individuals, which stood a little more than three ...

Komodo dragon osteoderms vary in shape. The insets show the four basic osteoderm types found on the adult specimen. From top to bottom: rosette; platy; dendritic; and vermiform. Disclaimer: AAAS and ...

The Komodo dragon fooled the scientific world for nearly a century. What looked like a bacterial death trap turned out to be an intricate venom delivery system hidden inside its skull. This discovery ...