The genetics company is teaming up with director Peter Jackson to resurrect an animal resembling the giant moa, an extinct ...

The Cambrian Explosion is a landmark moment in the history of life on Earth when many of the major groups of animals first ...

Both research teams recovered the ancient proteins from tooth enamel, the hardest substance in vertebrates’ bodies, in ...

The conodont Wurmiella excavata was said to have had razor-sharp structures that processed prey from left to right, rather ...

Paul Scofield, a project adviser and senior curator of natural history at the Canterbury Museum in Christchurch, New Zealand, ...

Filmmaker Peter Jackson owns one of the largest private collections of bones of an extinct New Zealand bird called the moa. His fascination with the flightless ostrich-like bird has led to an unusual ...

“Some of those iconic species that feature in our tribal mythology, our storytelling, are very near and dear to us,” says ...

A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the ...