With our planet around for nearly five billion years, countless species have walked—or crawled—on its surface. Some of them have managed to fight for their existence and staved off extinction.

Looking at the Cascade Range in the US, geologists found large amounts of magma lurking beneath even long-dormant volcanoes.

“The Katmai archeologists have no idea what kind of bone this is or what kind of animal it came from,” the park said in the ...

If stronger action is not taken now, we could lose these species within our lifetime—a tragedy not just for biodiversity but ...

A piece of fossilised vomit dating back to the time of the dinosaurs has been discovered in Denmark. Local fossil hunter ...

Modern oceans, for comparison, max out at trophic level five or six, represented by apex predators like orcas, sperm whales, ...

The Pisco Basin is a hot, desert area famed for frequent discoveries of ancient marine species and was an extensive sea in ancient times, making it a reservoir of marine fossils.

Tens of millions of years after a young pterosaur took its last breath in present-day Canada, paleontologists are investigating its death.

The Bay of Biscay, stretching from the tip of Brittany, in western France, to the north of Spain, is a major fishing zone in ...

A new large-scale Athletics Forest and more artworks will open at teamLab Planets TOKYO DMM in Toyosu, Tokyo (teamLab Planets ...

But a new study hints that maybe we aren’t so special. A million years ago, researchers have found, an extinct species of human relatives known as Homo erectus thrived in a harsh desert ...

The discovery of the most complete ichthyosaur skeleton known from New Zealand sheds new light on the diversity of these ancient dolphin-like marine reptiles in the southern hemisphere.