Researchers have identified over 70 new species, from ancient dinosaurs to living mammals and insects preserved in amber ...

From fruit flies that bite to a tiny mouse opossum and a feathered dinosaur preserved with the remains of its last meal, more ...

But even when taking these natural changes into account, the results of the mining tests were clear. The number of species in the impacted samples declined by 32% while the overall number of animals ...

The survey filmed 29,556 animals in Japan’s deepest ocean trenches, revealing how life copes with darkness and intense pressure below the surface. An international team used a full ocean depth ...

The ocean floor is home to a menagerie of odd and peculiar creatures. Now, armed with a remote controlled vehicle, researchers in the South China Sea have discovered another. During surveys from the ...

AT the seventh and last of the ordinary monthly meetings of the Montreal Natural History Society for the season 1870–71 a communication on a Mineral Silicate injecting Palæozoic Crinoids was made by ...

About 66 million years ago, just before the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs, a fish chewed up and spit out some sea creatures. Unbeknownst to that fish, its rejected meal was preserved in ...

Using fossil evidence and genetic dating, geneticists and paleontologists have backed strikingly different candidates for the world's first animal. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

The other night, I spotted a bottle of Captain Morgan atop my fridge that had been sitting up there for years, a shot or so still lingering at the bottom. On a whim, I dumped it into a glass with some ...