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The deadly flood in Nepal's Bhote Koshi River that killed at least nine people and left more than two dozen missing this week ...

Buried for 209 million years, a tiny flying reptile and its ancient neighbors just emerged from Arizona’s Triassic past.

Sometimes, an animal that was thought to be extinct will show up somewhere remote, and we can rejoice that we have another chance to save it. From the prehistoric fish that experts thought had been ...

Discover the astonishing tale of the coelacanth, a "living fossil" thought to be extinct for over 65 million years! This remarkable species was rediscovered off South Africa's Chalumna River in 1938, ...

An underwater volcano near Tonga revealed how sediment spreads, disrupts marine life, and raises questions about deep-sea ...

A cache of Triassic fossils in Arizona has revealed Eotephradactylus mcintireae, or "ash-winged dawn goddess," the oldest ...

The remains of extinct Homo erectus dredged from the seabed off Java, along with thousands of animal fossils, are revealing a long-lost ecosystem.

An ichthyosaur preserved beneath a Chilean glacier is helping scientists understand the extinct animals and the world around them as a supercontinent broke up.

A submerged river valley under the Madura Strait was found packed with Homo erectus fossils and other bones submerged since ...

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