A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally ...

Paleontologist Andre LuJan had an assist from nature with his latest exciting fossil find. Heavy rains helped expose a nearly complete skull of an enormous ancient salamander-like creature in a quarry ...

Scarlett Johansson plays a mercenary on a mission for dinosaur DNA. Jonathan Bailey and Mahershala Ali costar.

If you’ve lately been feeling that the “Jurassic Park” franchise has jumped an even more ancient creature — the shark — hold ...

Tyra the Tyrannosaurus is set to be poked and prodded this fall to determine whether Drumheller’s towering, monstrously ...

A triceratops would likely beat a T-rex in a fight. That answer might be surprising, but we can’t just consider the T-rex’s strengths in this situation. We have to consider its weaknesses. The T-Rex ...

“This is a pretty rare phenomenon in the world in terms of human and wildlife cooperation. So, it's something we’re not only interested in conserving on a species level, but also on a cultural ...

De-extinction can only be an infinitesimal part of solving the crisis that now sees species of animals (some large but most tiny), plants, fungi, and microbes going extinct at a thousand times ...

Neanderthal extinction: A space physicist reopens the debate by José-Miguel Tejero, Montserrat Sanz Borràs, The Conversation edited by Gaby Clark, reviewed by Andrew Zinin Editors' notes ...

Residents of Mafia Island in Tanzania don’t really eat sea cucumber; they call it jongoo bahari, or “ocean millipede” in Swahili. But sea cucumbers are a prized delicacy in East Asia, where ...

Four years after moving in, education curriculum developer Great Minds is to vacate its Richmond headquarters, leaving the nearly 19,000-square-foot building and its resident T-rex skeleton up for ...