Scientists from Oregon State University looked at coastal martens in the town of Klamath for three months ...

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our planet's history.

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

Prototaxites are something of a prehistoric mystery. They were the first giant organisms on land, towering over ancient ...

A fossil jaw of a distant human relative was discovered much farther north than previously thought possible, revealing new ...

A fish species thought to be extinct has suddenly been found in a small pond in Bolivia. The rare seasonal killifish, Moema claudiae, has not been recorded in the wild for more than 20 years and its ...

Two ancient wolf pups found entombed in Siberian permafrost more than a decade ago are revealing new stories, thanks to rich DNA clues preserved inside their bodies. In a first, researchers found a ...

For decades, scientists have studied the DNA of long-extinct animals found frozen in permafrost. However, researchers from the Centre for Palaeogenetics in Stockholm, Sweden, have just completed a ...

In the past couple of decades, several species have been driven to extinction thanks, in large part, to human interference. Sometimes that interference is direct, poaching for big game trophies or ...

A tiny native shrub declared extinct has made a stunning comeback in far north Queensland - and it’s all thanks to a ...