Ni Minjing, director of the Shanghai Science & Technology Museum, agrees: "Dinosaurs are actually between reptiles like ...

Prehistoric trees like Ginkgo and monkey-puzzles still have close relatives that go back at least to the time of the ...

Dinosaur meat, though long extinct, continues to captivate our imagination. If we could somehow bring them back, would they ...

Imagine waking up to hear your yard alive with sound – a robin’s cheerful call, the buzz of a hovering hummingbird, the swoop ...

On a 2009 hike in the Huachuca Mountains of southeastern Arizona, a group of birders heard an otherworldly, ethereal bird ...

An interview with Hunt for the Oldest DNA director Niobe Thompson about chronicling Eske Willerslev's breakthrough research ...

In the smooth limestone area of southern Germany, where lagoons glittered beneath a tropical sun, scientists are studying two ...

Some of these giant vegetarians were as tall as a 3-story building. Microscopic analysis of their teeth, bones and eggshells ...

A mosquito larva entombed in amber for about 99 million years is now the oldest known of its kind, according to a new study. The fossil comes from Kachin in northern Myanmar and likely formed when ...