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

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

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

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

Thousands of feet up on a volcano in Peru, a “slender” and scaly creature paused on a rock. Its coloring helped it blend “seamlessly” into the landscape but wasn’t enough to keep it from attracting ...

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.

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

The polar regions are cold, remote and off-putting, but there are thousands of polar words in English – and not just words ...

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

This was no ordinary expedition. It marked the first in-depth study of the geology, ocean conditions, and marine life beneath ...

Paleontologists have discovered a three-eyed creature with a pencil sharpener-like mouth that roamed the sea for prey more ...

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