The Greenland shark is one of the most mysterious and misunderstood creatures in the ocean, gliding silently through the icy ...

Ancient collagen preserved in the bones of extinct Australian mammals is revealing their evolutionary relationships, leading to some surprises.

The machine learning model also revealed only semi-terrestrial habitats for mesosaurs, a group of marine reptiles from 290 million years ago, but fully aquatic habitats for species of ichthyosaurs and ...

From woolly mammoths to giant sloths, via some lesser-known ice-age beasts like 'killer koalas', the visuals in this ...

Anyone walking through the Tarumã neighborhood in Curitiba (the capital of the state of Paraná, Brazil) today may find it ...

In Montana’s ancient rocks, scientists uncovered the tiny remains of a land-dwelling crocodyliform that challenges what we thought we knew about crocodile evolution. Around 95 million years ago, a ...

CINCINNATI — Heather Farrington sorts butterfly skins, placing them in envelopes and then into multiple boxes. A co-worker teases her. “Weren’t you doing that last week, too?” Farrington laughs.

Helen Ryan works for the WA Musem. Julien Louys receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Kenny Travouillon works for the Western Australian Museum. Blake Dickson and Mike Archer do not ...

Two Colorado women have been charged with over 100 animal abuse charges in connection with the rescue of 115 animals and the discovery of two dead animals in a Northglenn home this past summer. Patti ...

And then there were none. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has announced that several species of animals and plants have now gone extinct. The 2025 list of extinctions ...

John Woinarski is a director of the Australian Wildlife Conservancy, a member of the Biodiversity Council, and co-chair of the IUCN Australasian Marsupials and Monotremes Specialist Species Group.