Scientists have discovered prehistoric insects preserved in amber for the first time in South America, providing a fresh ...

It's also the first pterosaur ever found in Syria. Pterosaurs were large dinosaur relatives that were the first vertebrate species to evolve to have the ability of active flight, a trait we see now in ...

A decades-old theory that First Nations peoples hunted Australia's megafauna to extinction might not stack up, according to ...

Before the dawn of the dinosaurs, there was Soccoropteris cancellarei. The plant, which was found in Socorro County, is a newly discovered species that would have lived about 290 million years ago, ...

A new species of ancient "sword dragon" marine reptile has been discovered in fossils found in England, according to ...

Malacologists Ken Hayes and Norine Yeung spoke to The Conversation’s Catherine Cruz about native snails and conservation.

Thought to be extinct in the wild, the Spix Macaw currently exists in captivity with their numbers in the dismally low 60 to ...

You are probably familiar with kangaroos. Wallabies, too, and most likely quokkas as well. Less famous are their small, endangered cousins, the bettongs. These little marsupials love to dig and have a ...

Geologists say there is no evidence the Apolaki Caldera -- part of an extinct volcano located in the Philippine Sea -- could ...

A new discovery by our team, published in the Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, shows the start of this process dates back more ...

Microbiologist Cesar de la Fuente searches organisms’ genomes, including those that are long gone, to find “encrypted ...