Advanced analysis of prehistoric cave art has revealed new insights into the fishing practices of Paleolithic societies.

Researchers have named two newly discovered freshwater snail species from Brazil after characters from The Lord of the Rings.

Lonesome George was discovered motionless in his enclosure, one morning in June 2012. Overnight, George had taken not only ...

It is unclear exactly why the animals went extinct, but scientists say that human activity or climate change contributed to ...

Paleontologists have made a fascinating discovery in New York State: fossil remains of an ancient species of arthropod that ...

Join me as I crack open another book (or two) on my shelf and try to learn about every animal missing from this continent! Kamala Harris' Crowd Size Crushes Previous Record With Ellipse Speech The ...

They argue that since ethanol is naturally present in nearly every ecosystem, it is likely consumed on a regular basis by most fruit- and nectar-eating animals. “We're moving away from this ...

Ancient “gold” bug fossils, infused with pyrite, have been identified as a new species of arthropod by a team of researchers.

Unfortunately, many rare animals face the threat of extinction due to habitat loss, climate change, poaching, and other human activities. Some of these animals are so rare that only a few ...

Read on for our ranking of the scariest extinct creatures we're relieved we never had to ... Johnson Mortimer/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 3.0 Quetzalcoatlus, one of the largest known flying animals, lived ...

Megacheirans like Lomankus were very diverse during the Cambrian Period some 538-485 million years ago, but they were thought to be largely extinct by the Ordovician Period ... of arthropod than any ...

The church does not provide clear guidance about whether animals do — or don’t — go to heaven. I gently suggest in the book that since the time of the great medieval philosopher St. Thomas ...