Scientists have unearthed a remarkably well-preserved 20-million-year-old fossil leaf in the foothills of the Himalayas, ...

William L. Jungers was born in Palacios on Nov. 17, 1948, and went on to become one of the country’s best-known biological ...

Between 280 and 200 million years ago, a group of animals evolved which would eventually give rise to mammals, including ...

The La Brea Tar Pits’ Page Museum along Wilshire Boulevard is set to close for two years starting in July, and the Getty ...

A remarkable fossil discovery in western Hungary is reshaping what scientists thought they knew about one of the ocean’s most ...

A fossil harvestman identified using advanced imaging techniques shows that extinct arachnid lineages once lived in Europe.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature predicts that the birds' population could be cut in half by the 2080s. The ...

“My preparator and exceptional fossil finder, John Nyaphuli, identified a small nodule that at first revealed only tiny ...

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The bird is of cultural significance to the Māori people of New Zealand, and its numbers are starting to increase again.

Recently, scientists discovered a reptile fossil that provides the missing link between the transformation in the modes of ...