Seven new species are getting a home at the National Aviary, and most of them aren't birds. The Carnegie Museum of Natural ...

An eight-armed, pig-snouted brittle star found in the depths of the South Pacific has roots reaching back to the days of the dinosaurs. Researchers discovered the brittle star in 2015, in a barrel of ...

Divers in Florida’s Steinhatchee River stumbled upon hundreds of pristine fossils from an obscure Ice Age period, including ...

A remarkable collection of fossils has been unearthed in Florida after a sinkhole swallowed a group of animals. 500,000 years ...

Alert readers of the print edition noticed a puzzling photo caption in my last column. When writing about gull identification ...

A leopard-sized “fearsome” predator that hunted early elephants 30 million years ago has been identified following the ...

A new study links a particular gene to the ancient origins of spoken language, proposing that a protein variant found only in ...

Seattle satirist Maria Semple’s breakthrough novel is a flurry of contemporary, epistolary wit. Passive aggressive e-mail ...

Roger Pasquier explains how birds spend the quiet half of their lives even when they're flying and half their brain is awake and how we can cause them to become sleep-deprived.

A first-of-its-kind global assessment has revealed 603 wild animals plus five livestock taxa that do more than just inhabit the Earth – they shape it. These “animal architects” literally move their ...