Over the past 100,000 years, Australia and New Guinea's large animal communities have been disrupted by extinctions and ...

Researchers named the latest ancient shark discovery Macadens olsoni, as a tribute to both the Mammoth Cave and Rickard Olson ...

An international research team from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and from Buenos Aires and Washington D.C. has identified ...

One of the creepiest, crawliest creatures of the Earth may have been swimming before adapting to live on land, new research suggests.

Evolution is an incredible process that has filled our world with a richly diverse set of species. In this sense, it is a ...

Half a billion years ago, a strange sea-dwelling creature called Mollisonia symmetrica may have paved the way for modern ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of dinosaur — one that was dog-sized and roamed what is now the United States around 150 million years ago alongside familiar dinosaurs like stegosaurus ...

A newly discovered species of dinosaur is going on display in London’s Natural History Museum. Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae was a speedy, two-legged herbivore, 64 centimetres tall and 180 cm ...

Mammals have developed some unusual eating habits over the past 100 million years, but a new study has uncovered the surprising lengths to which some have gone to satisfy one of the more peculiar—a ...

A mother and son in Australia narrowly escaped an encounter with two hungry cassowaries – one of the only bird species on the planet with a track record of killing humans, according to animal ...