A rodent found in Laos has been determined to belong to a group thought to have gone extinct in the fossil records about 11 ...

An animal once believed extinct for 11 million years, has been rediscovered in the jungles of Laos, offering new insights ...

The megalodon (Otodus megalodon) is another step closer to becoming the first state shark in the United States. At the last ...

A new species of ancient primate challenges what we think we know about where human ancestors diverged from monkeys.

In a study to be published in Science on [3/26/2026], an international research team from the Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology Center (Egypt) and the University of Southern California (USA) ...

Discover 15 endangered species that haven't changed since the age of dinosaurs. See the rare photos of nature's survivors.

In this week's Science for All newsletter, Divya Gandhi explains why scientists believe central China should be protected as a global biodiversity hotspot ...

Anacondas were already massive when they appeared more than 12 million years ago. Fossils now show that their size has barely ...

In 2005, researchers described what they believed to be a new family, genus, and species of rodent. It was a delightfully ...

Scientists have unearthed a remarkably well-preserved 20-million-year-old fossil leaf in the foothills of the Himalayas, ...

A new study led by University of Arizona researchers has uncovered how massive volcanic eruptions in the Andes Mountains ...

Have you noticed the small projections on the top of a giraffe’s head and assumed that they were horns? They are called ...