Two marsupials thought extinct for over 7,000 years were rediscovered in New Guinea through fossils, photos and citizen science.

ENERGY is rarely discussed as a matter of sovereignty. Yet every time global tensions erupt in oil-producing regions, countries like the Philippines are reminded that our economic stability can be ...

Researchers discovered that a 215-million-year-old reptile started life on four legs and switched to two as an adult.

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

For years, we suspected that Alvarezsaurids underwent a rare process of evolutionary miniaturization directly coupled to a ...

Scientists announced on March 5, 2026, that they have identified an entirely new genus of mammal called Tous, a group of ...

The Spinosaurus is a sail-backed, crocodile-snouted dinosaur that Hollywood depicted as a giant terrestrial predator capable ...

In Colorado’s San Luis Valley, Jenny Nehring longs for this time of year, when her eyes look to the big sky and the big birds flying en masse against the Sangre de Cristo peaks, snow-capped and ...

After years of analysis, the animal turned out to be an entirely new species — one that lived millions of years longer than ...

Researchers working near the Amazon rainforest in Brazil unearthed a twisted fossilized jawbone and couldn’t figure out what they were looking at. Was it broken? Deformed? Did i ...

A newly discovered 275-million-year-old species found near the Amazon rainforest in Brazil had a jaw unlike anything seen before — and it’s forcing scientists to rethink when ...

The death of this ancient species, discovered alongside more newly described mammals, had been greatly exaggerated.