A 99-million-year-old wasp species used a Venus flytrap-like abdomen to capture prey and may represent a new insect family, ...

If you go walking in the wild, you might expect that what you're seeing is natural. All around you are trees, shrubs and ...

In 2007, a team led by Stanford geobiologist Kevin Boyce found that carbon isotopes in the fossils resembled those of fungi — ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

After Earth's worst mass extinction, surviving ocean animals spread worldwide. Stanford's model shows why this happened.

Prototaxites, an extinct organism from the Devonian period, has been thought to be a fungus since its first fossil was ...

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The South Florida Wildlands Association posted a photo of a strange creature that has inspired hundreds of comments South Florida Wildlands Association/Facebook A Florida wildlife nonprofit is ...

De-extinction — the science of resurrecting extinct species — is progressing in leaps and bounds. Here are six creatures that researchers could bring back to life.

Eli Elster does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Prehistoric Earth was a terrifying place, with giant, fearsome creatures roaming an equally deadly world of erupting volcanoes and primordial swamps. Survival could be counted in minutes, with a ...