An analysis of ancient teeth is giving scientists a rare peek into interactions between human relatives hundreds of thousands ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, the first animals to crawl onto land were strict meat-eaters, even as plants had already taken over the landscape. Now scientists have uncovered a ...

Dig into the past at Aurora Fossil Museum and uncover North Carolina’s prehistoric history. Dig into the past at Aurora Fossil Museum and discover North Carolina’s prehistoric history. Visitors can ...

As Los Angeles continues to face major troubles from its homeless population, a new issue is bubbling to the surface—animals are being abused on Skid Row. In the city run by Mayor Karen Bass, Skid Row ...

Remnants of a lion-sized armadillo dating back to the Ice Age have been discovered resting on the riverbed of a half-submerged cave 40 feet below the surface of Comal County. It’s a sight straight out ...

In a new and ongoing exhibition, the American Museum of Natural History highlights the findings of Mark Norell and other fossil hunters responsible for its most important discoveries. By Mark A. Stein ...

A hidden cave in Australia has quietly kept a secret for over a hundred years. Deep inside, scientists have now found proof that a giant echidna once lived there. This exciting discovery helps us ...

More than two decades after scientists identified a fossil as the world’s oldest octopus — officials now say it wasn’t one at all. A recent study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal ...

Michael and Erie Honan check out a hedgehog held by Justice Winslow, an education and community outreach specialist with the Utica Zoo, on Saturday at the New York State Museum in Albany. The Utica ...

Two mummified reptile specimens discovered in an Oklahoma cave are providing scientists with the clearest evidence yet of how breathing on land evolved — a shift that ultimately shaped the way humans ...

A recent feature by Maria Faith Saligumba for Discover Wildlife Science has renewed attention on a part of Costa Rica’s history that many people rarely think about: the giant animals that once lived ...

Newly published research by the University of Reading concludes that fossilized remains listed by Guinness World Records as the earliest known octopus belong instead to a relative of a nautilus, a ...