We rely on smell more than most people may realize. Across mammals, scent guides feeding, warns of danger, and shapes social behavior. A new international study shows that this vital sense leaves a ...

A cave discovery on New Zealand’s North Island has revealed fossils from an ancient ecosystem that existed more than one ...

Fossils from giant tortoises, armadillos and other Ice Age-era species challenge previous assumptions about the region’s ...

For animator and academic Dr. Jason Kennedy, palaeoart isn't just a hobby. Creating 3D images of prehistoric animals sits at the intersection of science and art, combining fossil analysis, comparisons ...

About 66 million years ago, dinosaurs ruled the Earth in a very different environment than we see today, with some creatures ...

The new study found that they lost their arboreal habitat due to a drying climate, a dire warning for the modern-day ...

CHINA — Goblet-shaped sea jelly relatives with miniature "arms." A plump, legless creature resembling a sausage. Long, wormlike animals tipped with flat "holdfast" discs for anchoring to the seafloor.

From butterflies to blue whales, corals and worms, Earth is home to an incredible diversity of animals. How all of these ...

Five years ago, Tokyo’s National Museum of Nature and Science unveiled an exhibition called the Pokémon Fossil Museum. When ...

A strange fossil skull found in a cave in western Australia has helped scientists identify a completely unknown koala species that vanished thousands of years ago. For more than a century, its remains ...