The U.S. is home to some of the world’s most fascinating prehistoric animals—creatures that have survived for millions of years. From alligators to horseshoe crabs, these species continue to ...

The fossil sheds light on interactions within the Cretaceous food web and may represent the first record of this type of ...

Longtime readers may recall a 2014 Journal editorial about California’s “bird-fryer” solar plant, a taxpayer-backed venture that was hell on local animals. Turns out it was also hell on ...

Image: David Northall, Wildlife Photographer of the Year A snarling honey badger stares down a cape porcupine in Botswana. It’s a brief pause in a life-or-death fight between the two animals.

Languages: English, Spanish A set of Stone Age artifacts have revealed evidence of advanced cognitive and symbolic behavior among prehistoric humans, a study reports. In the study, published in ...

How exactly these extinct creatures had sex, meanwhile, has proved something of a mystery – but now an expert sheds light on this most prehistoric of intercourse. American paleontologist Riley ...

Feb. 11, 2025 — A recent study by two biological science researchers found that a pathogen for bird pink eye remained viable on bird feeders in winter months much longer than in summer months ...

Researchers describe the region as “the most attractive land for prehistoric settlement anywhere in the continent.” Today, this land largely makes up the coastal shelf that is currently under ...

Dec. 12, 2024 — Neanderthal genes make up 1-2% of the genomes of non-Africans. Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans ...