Scientists from Oregon State University looked at coastal martens in the town of Klamath for three months ...

Rock climbers in Italy stumbled across evidence of what appears to be a sea turtle stampede that took place nearly 80 million ...

Earth looked much different not just millions, but even decades and centuries ago. Many animal species that once existed are ...

Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History investigated old specimens that had been at the museum for decades and ...

Scientists studying an amber collection from the Goethe National Museum in the German town of Weimar have made a remarkable ...

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our planet's history.

Prototaxites are something of a prehistoric mystery. They were the first giant organisms on land, towering over ancient ...

Two ancient wolf pups found entombed in Siberian permafrost more than a decade ago are revealing new stories, thanks to rich DNA clues preserved inside their bodies. In a first, researchers found a ...

For decades, scientists have studied the DNA of long-extinct animals found frozen in permafrost. However, researchers from the Centre for Palaeogenetics in Stockholm, Sweden, have just completed a ...

While the average person may believe we’re losing species faster than we can discover new ones, that may not be the case. A ...

A tiny native shrub declared extinct has made a stunning comeback in far north Queensland - and it’s all thanks to a ...