A 62-million-year-old mammal fossil reveals its tree-dwelling lifestyle, plant-based diet, and evolutionary ties to primates ...

Megalodon may have been up to 80 feet long, but the colossal extinct shark was also probably thinner than scientists ...

The Triassic is one of the most important periods in the evolution of life on Earth. After one of the greatest mass ...

The mass extinction that ended the Permian geological epoch, 252 million years ago, wiped out most animals living on Earth.

Megalodons might have been longer and thinner than previously thought, according to a new study. The enormous, extinct sharks ...

The Maritime and Coastguard Agency is assessing what counter pollution action is needed, as people voice concern for ...

In the shadow of the appropriately named Fossil Ridge Intermediate School, there is a race against time to uncover prehistoric treasures before they're lost to urban development.

"I'm feeling very proud, especially to have made a small contribution to science." Hiker accidentally stumbles upon ...

Although declared extinct in 1994, people claim to have seen desert rat-kangaroos since, and analysis of their museum ...

A gray wolf glances backwards while finding a path through a field of sagebrush after being released on the night of Jan. 14, ...

Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch ...