Centuries-old Japanese temples are still repaired using an ancient woodworking technique. This method, called kigumi, ...

A routine visit to a museum drawer left one paleontologist speechless when a fossil dismissed for decades turned out to ...

A stunning fossil discovery shows that ancient bees used the empty tooth sockets of mammal bones as tiny nests after owls ...

Scientists working inside Peru’s Alto Mayo Protected Forest have cataloged 27 species new to science, a tally that includes ...

A newly described sauropod dinosaur from Thailand stretched an estimated 27 meters long and carried a body mass of roughly 27 tonnes, the equivalent of about five adult African elephants. Named ...

For decades, biologists thought that early tetrapods, ancient vertebrates that started conquering the land over 300 million years ago, developed like modern amphibians—beginning their lives as purely ...

A NEW volume of collected papers, published by the American Museum of Natural History, New York, enables us to realise how important and numerous are the additions to our knowledge of extinct ...

A research team led by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) has revealed how the genome is reorganized in 3D during ...

The fossil turned out to be a hatchling of a crocodile-like creature, and it suggests, according to a new study, that early animals did not use metamorphosis to evolve to dwell on land ...

Palaeontologists have found new evidence that the early ancestors of amphibians, reptiles and mammals did not have a larval stage with external gills like modern frogs or salamanders ...

Zoraptera, also known as angel insects or ground lice, are tiny termite-like insects generally found underneath bark or in ...