For wines from Sicily, see Volcanic island wines. Volcanoes loom large in Italy’s history and culture (the word ‘volcano’ in fact comes from Vulcano, one of the seven islands in the Aeolian ...

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 ...

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

A 9-million-year-old shark fossil with its jaw intact and its last meal still inside has emerged from Peru’s coastal desert, ...

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 1991 hypothesis suggested that deforestation at Centinela in western Ecuador caused the immediate extinction of dozens of plant species believed to exist nowhere else. A 2024 reassessment finds that ...

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