On a fenced U.S. preserve, a pair of heavy‑boned canids now stalk and play that, until recently, existed only in tar pits and ...

Scientists have released the DinoTracker app to help paleontologists and amateur enthusiasts identify fossilized dinosaur ...

Fossils unearthed from the cavern provide a "missing volume" in New Zealand’s natural history, say researchers.

Animal names often sound precise, but many are the result of early guesswork that never got corrected. Explorers, naturalists ...

For decades, headlines have warned about endangered species being on the brink of disappearing from the world forever. Sadly, ...

The creation of the world's first "biovault" was announced this week, marking a new initiative that experts have likened to a ...

Teeth belonging to the fearsome creatures have been discovered throughout the state. Now, they're up for consideration by the ...

Land snail extinctions are accelerating across islands, exposing a devastating collapse of some of the world’s most fragile ...

Paleontologists have identified thousands of animal species that lived soon after the Cambrian explosion ended ...

The age of humans is increasingly an age of sameness. Across the planet, distinctive plants and animals are disappearing, replaced by species that are lucky enough to thrive alongside humans and ...

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our planet's history.