Researchers have dated vertebrae from a massive prehistoric shark thought to have ruled the waves off northern Australia back ...

Pigs, rats, cats and mongooses, all brought to the island decades earlier by humans, were to blame for their demise, preying ...

The largest known marsupial to live was about the size of a minivan and had jaws with the bite-force of a garbage compacter.

On the last night of 1853, twenty-one of the foremost paleontologists ate a grand dinner inside a massive model of a dinosaur ...

Scientists debate mosquito origins as fossil evidence and genomic studies clash, revealing new insights into their ...

Some TV cliffhangers are worth waiting for, but these 10 examples simply left their unresolved storylines hanging, to the ...

As I sat outside the Culver Hotel, a gentle breeze washed over me. In a high-rise seat, at a wooden bar lining a courtyard, I ...

Researchers used a particle accelerator the size of a stadium in order to gain this unprecedented look inside these ...

Somewhere between Los Angeles and Palm Springs, rising from the desert like a mirage that refused to disappear, stands a pair of concrete dinosaurs so magnificently absurd they’ve become California ...

Little did he know his chosen hobby on the Isle of Wight would help rewrite history. It was a fascination which began in ...

A high-traffic “dinosaur freeway” may have once stretched across a shoreline in what is now Bolivia. Traveling along this busy route were theropods — three-toed, bipedal meat-eating dinosaurs, ...

A 150-million-year-old fossil from the Jurassic era turned up at a Montana dig site this year — unearthed not by a scientist, but by a Connecticut high school student. Aidan Connor, a senior at ...