Around 66 million years ago, a six-mile-wide asteroid hit Earth, triggering the extinction of three-quarters of all living ...

The researchers analyzed rare fossils of hatchling birds found in northern Alaska, which offered the earliest evidence of the ...

At the end of April, a team of researchers scouring a scarred area of spiny forest in southwestern Madagascar came across ...

Seventeen footprints preserved in a slab of sandstone discovered in southeastern Australia dating to about 355 million years ago are rewriting the history of the evolution of land vertebrates, showing ...

A fossil from British Columbia, originally discovered in the 80s, has finally been identified as a new species named ...

A new study led by an Oregon State University researcher has revealed that more than 3,500 animal species are threatened by ...

In 2023, biologists Lauren Stefaniak and Marie Nydam had time to kill before their university workshop on marine ...

One of the most impactful stories in evolution is getting a rewrite, thanks to the exciting discovery of the earliest known set of reptile footprints. Craig A. Eury and John Eason, two amateur ...

A cast of a Deinosuchus, which lived 83.5 million years ago in the United States and was similar to modern alligators. They ...

New research published in BioScience reveals that climate change is rapidly emerging as a third major threat to Earth's wild animals, joining habitat alteration and overexploitation in what scientists ...