Buried in Australia's so-called dead heart, a trove of exceptional fossils, including those of trapdoor spiders, giant cicadas, tiny fish and a feather from an ancient bird, reveal a unique snapshot ...

By monitoring the movement, health, and environmental conditions of thousands of animals at once, Project ICARUS hopes to ...

MIT researchers traced chemical fossils in ancient rocks back to the ancestors of today’s demosponges. A team of geochemists ...

Great white sharks have long stood in our collective imagination as the ultimate predator in our oceans. These sizable sharks ...

The African continent contains a plethora of creatures great and small, but none stick out quite like giraffes. They tower ...

North Carolina is an ideal spot to find fossilized shark teeth. Be prepared for the coolest finds with my tips on knowing where to look.

In a groundbreaking discovery, a team of scientists has extracted what is now considered the oldest known ice on Earth — a 6-million-year-old block recovered from the Allan Hills region of West ...

An extinct species of rhino that lived inside the Arctic Circle 23 million years ago has been discovered. The nearly complete fossilized skeleton was recovered from the fossil-rich lake deposits in ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Overcrowding and the need for more adoptions have long been trends at the city of Jacksonville’s Animal Care & Protective Services; however, there’s now hope that those lingering ...

The largest animal thought to ever live is swimming through the world’s oceans today. Blue whales can reach lengths of 100 feet, but one of their smaller relatives isn’t too far behind. Right whales, ...

Fossils found in a riverbed in Japan were revealed as a large, ancient ancestor of right whales. Tanaka, et al (2025) Palaeontologia Electronica The largest animal thought to ever live is swimming ...