The most extensive biodiversity survey yet of Nepal’s little-studied Madhesh province has revealed a wealth of wildlife ...

By combining data on all known bird species, this tree is the most impressive snapshot yet of one of Earth’s most ...

Long before neighborhoods sprawled across North Texas, ancient seas teemed with formidable marine reptiles. One of those long ...

With the warmer weather returning, wasps are making their grand return as well. Here's what to know about the stinging insects and how to stay safe.

A team of scientists who study vertebrate fossil tracks and traces on South Africa's southern Cape coast have identified the ...

“We have NO preserved tyrannosaurid DNA (indeed, not Mesozoic dinosaur DNA sequences), so there are no T. rex genes,” Thomas ...

The new work adds to the legacy of Dave Johnson, a long-time museum curator famed for his detail-oriented research on fishes ...

Knife-toothed reptiles called sebecids went extinct on the mainland 10 million years ago. New fossil evidence puts them on an island 4 million years ago.

The other possibility is that the kinds of neural circuits that support vertebrate intelligence evolved independently in birds and mammals. It’s hard to track down which path evolution took, given ...

“However, we also found that A. porcatus and (the eastern Cuba green anole) are geographically isolated, genetically divergent and that both species are ecologically distinct from one another and from ...

When a fruit fly is navigating straight forward at high speed, why does it know that it's not straying off course? Because as ...