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

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

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.

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

While the average person may believe we’re losing species faster than we can discover new ones, that may not be the case. A recent analysis hosted at the University of Arizona has researchers arguing ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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