For the first time, a giant alatoconchid bivalve fossil has been discovered by researchers in Central China's Hubei Province, ...

The end of Permian mass extinction occurred 251.9 million years ago, marking the close of a geological period known as ...

This desert landscape with mountains, canyons, and the world's most extensive Permian fossil reef was once a thriving sea.

Throughout the evolutionary history of life on Earth, there have been some pretty strange creatures. If you tried to make a ...

Teeth are good for chewing and biting, but they are also sensitive – and that may have been their original function hundreds ...

Bermuda's Walsingham cave system harbors a wide diversity of cave-dwelling animals not found anywhere else in the world. Now, ...

Also known as "volcano snails," these gastropods grow a suit of metal-enriched scaly armor and have an enormous heart, which ...

The whale is the North Atlantic right whale, which numbers only about 370 and has declined in population in recent years. The ...

Geologists working on surveying land in Mississippi stumbled upon an incredible find: the fossil of an ancient marine apex predator considered a "sea dragon" of the time.

SEA BRIGHT -- A long-finned pilot whale that stranded at the beach here May 14 was euthanized by the Marine Mammal Stranding Center to prevent the animal from further suffering. According to the ...

Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal on a slab of sandstone ...

unlike any living animal.” About the size of an adult human’s index finger, Mosura and its swimming flaps vaguely resemble a moth, which led researchers to call it the “sea moth.” ...