During the Triassic period nearly 250 million years ago, a small reptile scurried after insects in the canopy of a lush ...

Preserved in tan stone, the fossil of Mirasaura included much of the ancient reptile’s skeleton and a feather-like fan that ...

In 2023, a tourist stumbled upon a jellyfish species not seen since 1976. A follow-up investigation strongly suggests these ...

A rare mineral from a 1724 meteorite defies the rules of heat flow, acting like both a crystal and a glass. Thanks to AI and ...

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This phenomenon is when a pack of rats become entangled by their tails, unable to separate themselves. We asked experts to ...

In a twist worthy of a detective novel, a long-misidentified fossil at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) has ...

The discovery, in a bizarre animal not closely related to birds, could change how scientists think about the origin of ...

A century-old fossil long mislabeled as a caterpillar has been reidentified as the first-known nonmarine lobopodian—rewriting ...

In a surreal twist, scientists expecting snow in Svalbard’s winter field season found rain, green tundra, and blooming flowers instead.

In a new study published in Communications Biology, a team of researchers redescribe Palaeocampa anthrax as the first known nonmarine lobopodian, and the youngest ever discovered. The fossil, which ...

Key maps from the Texas General Land Office are now collected in a book published by University of Texas Press ...