Discover the extraordinary prehistoric giants – from mega-sloths to monster sharks – that once made today’s animals look miniature.

When this researcher first laid eyes on a fossil, she instantly realized it was a new dinosaur species that had likely died a ...

The Amazon rainforest has yielded yet another new species, according to a recent study published in Zootaxa. Discovered in ...

Imagine my excitement when I thought I had taken a photograph of a Carolina parakeet, an extinct bird. In the spirit of full ...

Around 120 million years ago, a bird swallowed over 800 tiny stones and choked to death as a result. Paleontologists aren’t ...

A fossil only tells part of the story. When an animal's body is preserved as a fossil, there are often pieces missing, and ...

A prehistoric bird that lived and died 120 million years ago has presented forensic paleontologists with a baffling medical ...

Photojournalist Ami Vitale followed Przewalski’s horses—once declared extinct in the wild—on a 2,000-mile journey back to ...

The yellow-headed Amazon parrot is now officially recognized as endangered and appears to be headed for extinction in the ...

Shows they evolved flight-ready brains in different ways from birds ATHENS – Flight is a rare skill in the animal world.

Pterosaurs acquired flight "in a burst at their origin," giving scientists new insights into the biological laws of flight ...