Titanosaurs were the giants of the giants—four-legged behemoths that stomped around Cretaceous South America and Africa…
The reported discovery of 2.1-billion-year-old fossilized track marks etched in sedimentary rock is pushing back the…
A 52-million-year-old fossil found in Wyoming is now the earliest known seed-eating perching bird in the scientific…
Paleontologists in Argentina have uncovered a dinosaur unlike anything ever seen before. Alive some 140 million years…
The fossilized remains of an early reptile dating back some 250 million years have been uncovered in the unlikeliest of…
A bird’s-eye view can completely change your perspective on things. And I mean that literally.
A newly described freshwater shark from the Cretaceous Period had teeth that resembled the iconic Galaga video game…
Using computer simulations and a robot, researchers have recreated the likely gait of a 300-million-year-old animal…
Edwin Scholes has taken dozens of bush plane flights, helicopters and boat trips, and spent countless hours hauling…
Surely, someone out there has cooked up a shrimp fra diavolo and thought, “mamma mia, this would be much easier if…
With their elongated bills and specially adapted tongues, hummingbirds are built to extract nectar from flowers. As new…
The holidays are nigh, and this year’s naughty list is long indeed—and from revelations of reckless privacy violations…
Unprecedented footage from Costa Rica shows tiny tropical lizards “breathing” from an air sac suspended atop their…
New scientific results have strengthened the case that the ubiquitous northern cardinal could be two species of bird or…
Feathers were common among dinosaurs, but scientists aren’t certain if the fur-like coverings of pterosaurs—a group of…
Bears. Donkeys. Fat, friendly dogs. These animals—animals, generally—have been around for an extremely long time, long…
Ichthyosaurs and dolphins are the archetypal examples of convergent evolution in action, in which two completely…
Jumping spider mothers provide milk to their spiderlings far into development, according to a new study that might turn…
A closer examination of a fossil found more than four decades ago has led to the identification of a new species of…
It was big and burly, but don’t call this Triassic-era beast a dinosaur. More closely related to mammals, this…
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