The Chicago Archaeopteryx features more soft tissue and delicate skeletal details than any known fossil of its kind, and paleontologists discovered it has a set of feathers key to flight in modern bir ...

Since the late 19th century, sauropod dinosaurs (long-necks like Brontosaurus and Brachiosaurus) have been almost universally ...

In 1861, scientists discovered Archaeopteryx, a dinosaur with feathers, in 150 million-year-old limestones in Solnhofen, Germany. They didn’t ...

For the first time, the remarkable features of Australia's unique wildlife—from platypus, bilby, kangaroo, koala and emu to ...

At a site known as Natural Trap Cave, a team of scientists are rappelling down to uncover the secrets of what the Earth was like during the Pleistocene ...

For the first time, the remarkable features of Australia's unique wildlife – from platypus, bilby, kangaroo, koala and emu to mammals gone extinct – ...

The sometimes uncomfortable sensations we feel in our teeth may be an evolutionary holdover from the scaly exteriors of ...

Longer and taller than a double-decker bus, with a narrow crocodilian snout, a giant sail on its back, and a paddle-like tail ...

Most of what we know about prehistoric life comes from bits and pieces—bones, teeth, impressions in rock. However, every now ...

Paleogeneticists, it turns out, find the small wildcat just as elusive as field biologists. Compared with other domesticated ...