A university student on a fossil-hunting field trip in Dorset made a stunning discovery: a 145-million-year-old jawbone ...

New research suggests that they smashed animal bones into tiny pieces before boiling them to extract the high-calorie grease ...

A University of Portsmouth student has discovered a new species of prehistoric mammal dating back 145 million years to the ...

A rare Behningia mayfly nymph has been rediscovered after 22 years without sightings, revealing key secrets about healthy ...

An immersive new exhibition at the Intrepid Museum in New York City spotlights the science and technology behind the ...

Proteins degrade over time, making their history hard to study. But new research has uncovered ancient proteins in the enamel ...

Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived ...

When an animal moves from the endangered species list to being officially extinct, it's undeniably a sad day. The creature ...

Filmmaker Peter Jackson's fascination with a large extinct New Zealand bird has led to an unusual partnership with a biotech ...

There are over 150,000 species on the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List. Of those species, over 42,000 ...

While the ivory-billed woodpecker has attracted a lot of attention in the 21st century due to reported sightings, it was not been the only Arkansas-dwelling bird that went extinct during the 20th ...

Researchers said the rare species “abruptly disappeared” from the region following an El Niño event. Now it is thriving.