Two marsupial species thought long extinct, until now known only from fossils, were found alive in New Guinea through a ...

Barry Hughes, a volunteer in the Condon Fossil Collection, opens a drawer containing the head of a saber-tooth tiger and ...

“Living fossil” is often misused, but chitons really haven’t changed much in about 300 million years.

Biologists identify a new species of "living fossil" chiton through cutting-edge mitochondrial genome sequencing.

The Great God of the Sea has truly blessed us with a bountiful catch.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Savannah Guthrie visits the Today show at Rockefeller Plaza on March 5, 2026 and Savannah Guthrie and Nancy Guthrie on the Today ...

Until now, scientists have only known about the animals from fossils. But they suspected the creatures might still be alive, ...

Indigenous people in Papua, Indonesia, have helped scientists track down two animals that were thought to have gone extinct thousands of years ago: a relative of Australia’s greater glider and a ...

Stephanie Kirsop didn't believe her son when he phoned to say a crocodile was lurking in a creek near their home. The family ...

Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets—including Earth—and survive, a new ...

In paleontology, lineages that drop out of the fossil record and then re-emerge after long periods are termed ‘Lazarus taxa.’ ...

Marine fossils discovered near the summit of Mount Everest reveal that the world’s highest mountain was once part of an ancient ocean floor before tectonic collisions lifted the Himalayas.