Zealandia, the world’s first fully fenced urban ecosanctuary, is taking a long view on conservation—and creating one of New ...

Discover more about the egg-laying monotremes of Oceania and the ancient traits they still carry.

Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid as big as Mount Everest was headed on a deadly collision course with Earth. The ...

Today, Hell Creek appears as a harsh and broken landscape, but its rocks preserve one of the most critical chapters in ...

The research provides new clues for understanding animal extinction and environmental changes. The paper was recently published in Paleobiology, a peer reviewed journal.

A new study by the University of Minnesota challenges previous classifications paleontologists use to determine how the ...

Australia's Finke River, an ephemeral waterway in the Northern Territory, is considered one of the world's oldest, with a ...

Visitors can wander through halls filled with dinosaur fossils, mounted mammals, minerals and global wildlife specimens.

The Gulf of Mexico covered the gently sloped sand hills of lower Arkansas until about 50 million years ago. The Ouachita orogeny--the collision that pushed up what we know, in eroded form, as the ...

A simulated picture of the two dinosaurs walking, Sinosauropteryx lingyuanensis (right) and Huadanosaurus sinensis (left), found in Lingyuan, Liaoning province. [Photo by Zhao Chuang/For China Daily] ...

When scientists finally measured the most powerful bite ever recorded, the winner wasn’t T. rex. It was something far older, ...

Fossils of tiny, jawless marine animals reveal tooth structures sharper than sharks or steel, forcing scientists to rethink ...