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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 twist worthy of a detective novel, a long-misidentified fossil at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) has emerged as a key discovery in ...