Paleontologists in China have described a new species of the coelacanth genus Whiteia on the basis of two fossilized ...

Thought to be extinct in the wild, the Spix Macaw currently exists in captivity with their numbers in the dismally low 60 to ...

Two recently examined fossils suggest that Australia’s First Peoples valued big animals for their fossils as well as for ...

In early June 2023, the coral reefs in the lower Florida Keys and the Dry Tortugas were stunning. We were in diving gear, ...

For almost 200 years, no one knew where the last living great auks were. Using DNA testing, one of them was found in ...

New research suggests that dinosaur populations were thriving in North America before the asteroid impact 66 million years ...

This is the last of three blog posts associated with this week’s episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, which addresses life in the universe. Read the first and second here. Someday, in the not too ...

In a grim study, a team of nearly 50 researchers concludes that extreme ocean heat killed off two crucial coral species that ...

Indigenous Australians may have been early "paleontologists," not big-game hunters, according to a new analysis ...

A trove of specimens from New Mexico may help settle a long-running argument about the diversity of dinosaurs before their ...

In a new study, University of New South Wales Professor Mike Archer and colleagues re-examined the fossilized tibia (lower ...