Millions of years ago, some prehistoric otters grew far larger than any species alive today. Fossils of the giant otter ...

Visits to the Berkshire Museum in the 1950s and '60s made fond memories of not only the exhibits, but also the people there ...

A simple fossil hunt on Florida’s Peace River quickly turned into something much bigger. Shark teeth, fossilized bones, turtle shell fragments and mysterious prehistoric remains started appearing ...

For decades, one puzzle stood out among the many mysteries of early animal evolution: the missing origin story of bryozoans. These tiny, filter-feeding colonial animals live in almost every ocean ...

Pine Bend expands SAF access at MSP, but capacity and infrastructure do not prove lifecycle emissions reductions.

These clues from the Galápagos led Darwin (immediately? long afterward? here the mythic story is vague) to conclude that ...

A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems. In the aftermath, jawed vertebrates gained an unexpected edge by surviving ...

Amnesty International urged authorities in Ecuador on Wednesday to implement a court ruling mandating the elimination of oil industry gas flares near populated areas in the Amazon and the provision of ...

Local communities on Buru Island are helping safeguard critically endangered leatherback turtles through conservation and ...

Paleontologists have identified the earliest-known cephalopod equipped with a siphuncle -- a tubular extension of the mantle ...

Palaeontology is the study of prehistoric species, mostly ones that are extinct. It focuses primarily on fossil data, using a variety of physical, chemical and biological techniques to analyse them.

Five finalists selected from over 200 entries offering innovative solutions to ‘climate and nature’ and ‘health and ...