Ecologists say the rare and cryptic smoky mouse is proving it can survive on its own in the state's south, where a ...

Six African Penguins at the New England Aquarium in Boston have made a new home on an island designed to address the aches ...

Professor Lee Berger, the project's leader and Director of the Centre for Exploration of the Deep Human Journey at Wits ...

The now-extinct megalodon shark may have been larger than first believed, reaching lengths of 80 feet (24.3 meters), according to a new study published in Palaeontologia Electronica last week. This is ...

Earlier this month, science delivered a really cute experimental result. Researchers created a “colossal woolly mouse,” a ...

Illinois’ commercial fossil trade is alive and well thanks to collectors who are motivated by money, science and the hunt — and who test the outer bounds of legality.

Last week, science delivered a really cute experimental result. Researchers created a “colossal woolly mouse,” a fluffy rodent that’s purported to be a step on the way to resurrecting woolly mammoths ...

Scientists have identified 866 new species as part of the Ocean Census, a global mission to protect and accelerate the ...

Last Saturday, while hundreds of revelers were hunting for bocks near Schell’s Brewery during Bockfest, another group was ...

The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a ...

For 130 years, a small Chilean frog vanished from scientific view. Biologists searched. Nature enthusiasts kept their eyes open. But Alsodes vittatus remained stubbornly invisible.

This rare marsupial's comeback story shows how protecting individual species helps maintain healthy ecosystems for both ...