The discovery, in a bizarre animal not closely related to birds, could change how scientists think about the origin of ...

Some animals seem out of place at first glance. Sometimes that can be chalked up to the limits of imagination, but other ...

But T. rex was also the last of its meat-tearing family. The earliest tyrannosaurs evolved about 166 million years ago. In ...

Neanderthals in two nearby caves used different techniques when butchering animal carcasses in what is now Israel, according ...

In the study, "Night lizards survived the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction near the asteroid impact," published in Biology Letters, researchers combined phylogenetic tip-dating with ...

Grasslands are home to various species, including mammals, birds, reptiles, and insects. In this blog post, we will look at 10 of the most exciting and iconic grassland animals and provide some ...

U.S. to add pangolins, ‘most heavily trafficked mammal,’ to endangered list The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed adding seven species of pangolin, which are sold for their scales and ...

The Amur leopard is already a rare species found in Russia, so it’s not great that it’s found on the endangered species list, with fewer than 100 in existence.

The history of Earth has been punctuated by five major mass extinction events, each wiping out between 70-95% of all species. As we potentially face a sixth mass extinction driven by human activity ...

The astonishing superpowers of nature’s most unloved animals From their odd appendages to their unsavory hygiene, certain animals suffer an image problem.

Crocodilians are some of the most ancient and fascinating predators on Earth, and there are now 27 known species, including 3 newly discovered in recent years! In this video, we take you on a ...

Based on the current research in this region, a model of its Late Cretaceous-Paleogene evolution was constructed by using zircon U–Pb dating, low-temperature thermochronology, and the isostatic model ...