Many animals exhibit fascinating collective behaviors, which allow them to move, search for food, reproduce and avoid threats more effectively than they would …

The sail-backed predator Dimetrodon is one of the most iconic animals of the early Permian—long before dinosaurs dominated Earth. Most known species of this ea…

The funny-sounding name offers new insights into galaxy formation. Many of the developments shared by astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope and sim…

Over the decades, whether we paid attention or not, one thing has remained constant: Our failure to get global warming under control is the greatest betrayal t…

Ancient ground squirrels feasted on carcasses like ‘zombies of the Pleistocene’ Fossilized poo harbors remains from mammoths, bison and big cats, including so…

A research team with the participation of the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP) has described a new species of extinct carnivore from fos…

A spectacular fossil fish discovered on a remote cliff in New Zealand nearly 30 years ago has finally revealed its full story thanks to an unexpected discovery…

Researchers diving 7 kilometres deep in a crewed submersible have discovered a vast collection of whale bones, including fossils up to 5 million years old and …

Largest whale ‘graveyard’ discovered, with skeletons spanning 5 million years The fossilized remains of more than 450 whales have amassed along a 750-mile-lon…

CALGARY, June 9 (Reuters) - Alberta is touting its abundant supply of cheap fossil fuels to entice tech companies to build data centers for the AI boom, a move…

European fallow deer have faced a dramatic loss of genetic diversity since the last interglacial period. This was revealed by 120,000-year-old fossils from cen…