A chance scan from a drawer in the Museum of Natural History resulted in the identification of an ancient saber tooth species ...

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

In a world shaped by climate change, biodiversity faces unprecedented challenges. Fungi, as a kingdom, are expected to shift their interactions with other ...

Authorities say the remains of at least 117 dogs were found on the grounds of a California “no-kill“ animal shelter, many of ...

A museum fossil ignored for more than 50 years has revealed the first complete skull of an ancient saber-toothed cat and ...

The chair of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture has rolled out his draft version of the Farm Bill – the Agricultural Act of 2026 – on June ...

A new study suggests humans and great apes have been giggling in similar ways dating back 15 million years. Many other ...

Housing officials were told to exclude emotional support animals and tighten the definition of a service animal when granting accommodations for disabled tenants. By Chris Cameron and Debra Kamin The ...

Equipped with powerful jaws and finely serrated teeth, paleontologists say the 43-foot-long prehistoric marine reptile deserves the name Tylosaurus rex. After remeasuring dozens of mosasaur specimens ...

In the red-brown siltstones of Yunnan province, southwest China, paleontologists have found something that was not supposed to be there: worm-shaped animals with bilateral symmetry, preserved ...

After losing its original eyes, one of our distant ancestors may have done what evolution does best: tinkered with what was available, reshaping a single central visual organ into two new eyes. That’s ...

There may be twice as many vertebrates on the planet as previous estimates claimed, according to a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. That's ...