Newly analyzed jawbones from 380-million-year-old lungfish are shedding light on the feeding behaviors of our earliest ...

Water and air pose completely different challenges to animals on a number of levels.

A rare Triassic fossil site reveals North America's oldest known pterosaur, Eotephradactylus mcintireae, in what was once a ...

A Smithsonian-led team of researchers have discovered North America's oldest known pterosaur, the winged reptiles that lived ...

Fossils offer a glimpse into Earth's ancient life, revealing the origins and evolution of complex organisms. Discoveries like ...

The motivation behind everything that animals do is to stay alive, at least until they have produced offspring. Any species ...

“It may be doubted,” Darwin wrote, “if there are any other animals which have played such an important part in the history of the world as these lowly organized creatures.” ...

Nature’s least loved animals are dying fast. This could make the environment stinky and pathogens unstoppable.

The Jurassic franchise’s wildest creature yet, Distortus rex, is part T. rex, part nightmare. Here's what to expect in ...

Scientists have unearthed in Arizona fossils from an assemblage of animals, including North America's oldest-known flying reptile, that reveal a time of transition when venerable lineages that were ...

A new habitat for the pond turtle has been discovered in the Berezinsky Biosphere Reserve, the environmental institution reports ...

Worms radically reorganized their genomes during their move from sea to land, supporting the theory of punctuated equilibrium in evolution.