“It turns out the world’s most famous octopus fossil was never an octopus at all,” Clements says in a statement. “It was a ...

When we think of the Mesozoic Era, we usually imagine massive reptiles and prehistoric jungles, but some of the most ...

Massive herbivores became scarce in the Middle East about 200,000 years ago, and this coincided with a shift towards smaller, ...

Animal populations have fallen by 73% in some species over the past 50 years. Are we on a fast track to widespread species ...

A flooded cave in central Texas has yielded the remains of Ice Age animals that have never been found in the region ...

Discover Devil’s Den in Florida, a magical underground spring with crystal-clear water, ancient fossils, and a cave setting ...

Lazarus taxa, where a species is declared extinct but later learned to be alive and kicking, is the reason people think the ...

Once common across the grasslands west of Melbourne, the Victorian grassland earless dragon was thought to be extinct for 54 ...

Up until a few years ago, Texas residents thought the unusual looking canids were simply coyotes. DNA testing revealed ...

Wausau Public Radio A new mobile education program is bringing Wisconsin’s prehistoric past directly to classrooms, libraries and ...

The researchers spent a month documenting the biodiversity living in the ocean surrounding the archipelago nation, which the ...

Grizzlies were once plentiful in California. The golden animals, a type of brown bear, are still depicted on the state flag and in the names of university college teams.