Oviraptorosaurs are weird dinosaurs that look a bit like flightless birds. But these ancient animals aren't just ...

If there were any contender for a real-life equivalent to the Oliphaunts of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, it would be ...

Paleontologists in England discovered the existence of a new marine species that roamed the Earth before the dinosaurs and ...

Previously believed to be plant or fungi, these giant organisms may have been a now-extinct fourth type of life.

A more positive pro-natalism would borrow the “ toddler test ” proposed by Vox ’s Kelsey Piper: “Every American city should ...

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

The northern bald ibis (Geronticus eremita) is an extravagant waterbird adapted to forage in dry, open habitats, and is ...

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 ...

Millions of animals are at risk, but what are the rarest animals in the world? These are some of the most endangered animals, ...

The blue-headed quail dove is a uniquely ancient species with no close relatives and is now on the brink of extinction. At ...