Scientists studying an amber collection from the Goethe National Museum in the German town of Weimar have made a remarkable ...

While Thrinaxodon liorhinus didn’t yet have the sophisticated hearing equipment of modern mammals, it shows that eardrums began evolving much earlier than assumed.

Off the coast of Papua New Guinea, a "dwarf"-like sea creature with spotted eyes swam around a reef. It darted into a nearby coral as a shadowy figure approached, but its hiding spot wasn't quite ...

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks with David Bottjer, Earth Sciences professor with the University of Southern California, about the discovery in China of what's thought to be one of the earliest fossils of a ...

In the hills of southern India, a “slender” creature climbed several feet off the ground and tucked itself under some tree bark. But the hiding place — and its “quick” color changes — wasn’t enough to ...