At more than 160 million years old, a recently discovered amphibian fossil has set a new record for the earliest known ...

Near a waterfall in Thailand, a pregnant creature with two “externally visible” eggs perched on a rock. Its “large” mosaic-like eyes scanned the dark landscape, but it wasn’t the only one looking ...

Coelacanths are strange fish that are currently only known from two species found along the East African coast and in ...

Lucy’s discovery transformed our understanding of human origins. Don Johanson, who unearthed the Australopithecus afarensis ...

Nearly all birds with bright red, orange, and yellow feathers or bills use a group of pigments called carotenoids to produce ...

During the searches, the team found two yellow-brown salamanders on tree trunks, the study said. Researchers took a closer ...

Comb jellies could be one of the first animals to have existed in the world as their presence goes back 700 million years.

Research shows that over the past 40 years, butterflies traditionally found in England and Wales have become more common in Scotland.

Researchers have discovered that scarlet macaws purposefully neglect feeding the youngest chicks in most broods, even when resources are plentiful. This results in only one or two chicks being able to ...

For 188 years, the king cobra has been represented by a single species, Ophiophagus hannah. But this widely distributed ...

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” — Albert Einstein Autumn, warm weather, bird ...

At a popular geological park outside Melbourne, Australia, tourists have the opportunity to try caving. More than 50 people per day go on recreational caving tours in Britannia Creek Cave year-round, ...