A group led by University of São Paulo (USP) researchers in Brazil has described a new genus of frogs, Dryadobates, also ...

A stash of 15 marine fossils has been found in a Neanderthal cave in northern Spain, indicating that the extinct hominids may have developed a passion for accumulating stuff in the same way that ...

Paleontology has just reached a major milestone with the discovery of intact proteins in fossils dating back to the Miocene.

Dire wolves, which went extinct more than 10,000 years old, are much larger than gray wolves, their closest living relatives today.

The answer No, fireflies/lightning bugs aren't going extinct, but their populations are declining, specifically in highly human-populated areas.

Trail cameras in Australia’s Pilliga conservation area capture family of once locally extinct Shark Bay bandicoots, marking progress in restoring species to region.

Claims of fireflies, also called lightning bugs, going extinct or the current generation being the last to see them often circulate on social media, and while their populations are in decline like ...

Ecologists in Australia were treated to an "adorable" surprise while reviewing thousands of images captured by their motion sensor field cameras.