Crocodiles, monkeys, tigers, zebras and dozens of other taxidermy animals will move to new homes after concerns about arsenic exposure forced the closure of the South Dakota museum where they had been ...

A new look at fossils from the Cambrian Period around 500 million years ago has revealed that some of the earliest animals spent time on mudflats that were sometimes exposed to the air – a find that c ...

This is a well-written important paper on the recovery of fauna and flora following the end-Permian extinction event in several continental sites in northern China. The convincing conclusion, a rapid ...

Ongoing increases in production and consumption of shale gas continue adding carbon emissions to the atmosphere as industrial ...

Researchers in China found Baminornis zhenghensis, which lived at roughly the same time as the famous Archaeopteryx but ...

As more and more "historical" checklists are added to the platform, birds we've lost now mingle with those still hanging on.

Roughly half a million years ago, a group of armadillo-like mammals, horses, and sloths met their end in a sinkhole in what ...

The thriving bird colonies likely grew over several decades because local shepherds had temporarily eliminated pumas ...

Brad Lunsford, who was taken into custody and will be sentenced at a later date, faces up to nine years in prison.

Prehistoric times were pretty strange, to put it lightly, and the same could be said of the species from that period. Here ...

That agenda is unwelcome news for a small lizard in West Texas.

Scott Mason IV is the new administrator for the EPA region covering Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and 66 ...