Up to 50 percent of species—which included 12 bird species and 4 frog species—on Aotearoa’s North Island went extinct before ...

Earth looked much different not just millions, but even decades and centuries ago. Many animal species that once existed are ...

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

Scientists from Oregon State University looked at coastal martens in the town of Klamath for three months ...

Less than a year ago, United States company Colossal Biosciences announced it had “resurrected” the dire wolf, a megafauna-hunting wolf species that had been extinct for 10,000 years. Within two days ...

Rock climbers in Italy stumbled across evidence of what appears to be a sea turtle stampede that took place nearly 80 million ...

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.

Prototaxites are something of a prehistoric mystery. They were the first giant organisms on land, towering over ancient ...

Scientists studying an amber collection from the Goethe National Museum in the German town of Weimar have made a remarkable ...

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

Two ancient wolf pups found entombed in Siberian permafrost more than a decade ago are revealing new stories, thanks to rich DNA clues preserved inside their bodies. In a first, researchers found a ...

While the average person may believe we’re losing species faster than we can discover new ones, that may not be the case. A recent analysis hosted at the University of Arizona has researchers arguing ...