The field of paleo-inspired robotics is opening up a new way to turn back time and studying prehistoric animals.
It’s already baffling how many incredible and strange creatures can be found on planet Earth, with there being well over 8 ...
The Nicobar Islands are a biodiversity hotspot, home to unique species found nowhere else. Long isolated, these islands have ...
The Wollemi Pine’s bark looks like bubbling chocolate—but its real secret? It’s a 200-million-year-old survivor from the age ...
Thousands of 12,500-year-old rock paintings dubbed the "Sistine Chapel of the ancients" have been found in the Amazon jungle.
Roughly half a million years ago, a group of armadillo-like mammals, horses, and sloths met their end in a sinkhole in what ...
Scientists have discovered that the secrets to pterosaur success lie in the microscopic architecture of their bones.
A team of scientists from The University of Manchester have revealed that bone fossils from close relatives of dinosaurs ...
Olorgesailie is a trove of in situ prehistoric materials, including hand axes, armor stones, flakes, and bones from extinct ...
With threats of avian flu and lead poisoning, biologists are working overtime to care for a species that nearly went extinct.
The microarchitecture of fossil pterosaur bones could hold the key to lighter, stronger materials for the next generation of ...
A 183-million-year-old plesiosaur fossil unveils rare skin details, reshaping our understanding of ancient marine life.