An ancient South African cave painting may depict a fossilized creature, revealing early indigenous interpretations of ...

The Christmas Island shrew, a species of cone snail (Conus lugubris), the slender-billed curlew, and three Australian mammals ...

A dense Arctic bonebed shows marine life and ocean food webs recovered far faster than scientists once believed after mass ...

A new study links climate stress to the disappearance of the early human species Homo floresiensis, known as the “hobbits” of ...

Findings from the largest-ever survey of endangered flat-headed cats may help change the species’ official conservation ...

The discovery of a new dicynodont species suggests early land animals moved across Pangaea later and more widely than ...

Researchers are looking for answers behind the mystery of Gigantopithecus blacki, the largest known primate that ever lived.

Burrowing bees generally prefer to make their nests in the open, but some 20,000 years ago their ancestors lived in a cave ...

This video highlights three modern animals that stand as the closest living relatives of some of the world’s most iconic ...

Before modern humans spread across the globe, Earth was already losing enormous predators and strange megafauna to climate ...

A new pterosaur species was recently discovered in the vomit of a dino. But that's just the start of revelations from prehistoric excretions. Millions of years ago, a predator like spinosaurus (shown ...

Cuban scientists are striving to save the manjuari, a prehistoric fish species, from extinction in the Zapata Swamp. Meanwhile, NASA adjusts its Boeing contract to limit Starliner missions. The ...