The world is currently experiencing its sixth mass extinction, with potentially thousands of species lost every year.

An analysis of two theropod dinosaur fossils has shown that they had a type of carpal bone (pisiform) in their wrists—a bone ...

Texas genetics engineering company Colossal Biosciences is teaming with filmmaker Peter Jackson and New Zealand experts to ...

From 9-foot tall ostriches to albatrosses with gargantuan wingspans, here are some of the biggest birds in the world.

Fossilized footprints of a primitive reptile found on a slab of rock from Australia could rewrite the story of how animals evolved to live on land.

Our new discovery, published today in Nature, details ancient fossil footprints found in Australia that upend the early ...

Seventeen footprints preserved in a slab of sandstone discovered in southeastern Australia dating to about 355 million years ago are rewriting the history of the evolution of land vertebrates ...

The footprints reveal that reptiles existed about 35 million years earlier than previously known, showing that the evolution of land vertebrates occurred more rapidly than had been thought.

Oldest footprints of first ‘reptile’ found by fossil hunters A report in the journal Nature estimates that the amniote tracks date to between 350 million and 359 million years ago.

Why birds migrate at night A large majority of North America’s migratory land birds, about 80%, are nocturnal migrants, Yoerger said.

Tiny bird footprints, flanked by beak marks and invertebrate trails, suggest a shorebird pecking for worms in shallow water — capturing a prehistoric moment in stone.