Museums are supposed to be havens for the collective cultural and scientific heritage of the planet, but specimens sometimes ...

About 415 million years ago, the floodplains of what’s now England and Wales were haunted by a nightmarish predator: a ...

The publicity posters for the 1955 cult monster movie Tarantula! displayed a giant spider rampaging across the Arizona desert ...

A unique cache of plant fossils from volcanic deposits in New Mexico contradicts the common narrative that flowering plants ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from China reveal that bryozoans were already thriving during the Cambrian explosion.

Is it possible to study the history of viruses that emerged several hundred million years ago? An international team of INRAE ...

The fossil turned out to be a hatchling of a crocodile-like creature, and it suggests, according to a new study, that early ...

A set of giant Megalodon vertebrae that vanished for decades has been rediscovered in Denmark, confirming that this ...

Researchers analyzed 200 fossil teeth from ancient mammals in China, revealing how they adapted and diversified after the ...

Mongolia contains some of the most well preserved and diverse fossils in the world, but they attract more than paleontologists. Black market smugglers routinely rob both the East Asian country of its ...

A research team at Yunnan University has resolved a longstanding mystery regarding Earth’s earliest vertebrates, revealing ...