A tiny fossil preserved in 16 million-year-old amber revealed an extinct Caribbean species that mastered the art of ...

Giant freshwater crayfish, longer and bulkier than today's species, roamed New Zealand 20 million years ago. They would have ...

Wherever there's dirt there's bound to be ants, but one particular group is so adept at blending in with the ground that they hold the name "dirt ant" (Basiceros) all to themselves.

In its 4.5 billion year history, Earth has undergone five mass extinctions and we are potentially in a sixth era of mass death. Today’s crocodylians are the surviving members of a lineage called ...

The private company Colossal Biosciences claims to have resurrected dire wolves through genetic editing. The resulting trio, ...

A remarkable fossilized larva has been discovered by scientists with its brain and guts still intact. The fossilized creature ...

Shrimp look an awful lot like bugs. The exoskeletons, jointed legs and compound eyes of both groups of living things give ...

Startup Colossal Biosciences has edited the DNA of a gray wolf to produce what it says is a de-extincted animal. Does that ...

Choosing the right dog breed is a big decision, especially if you’re looking for a highly trainable and disciplined dog. In ...

Scientists have revived prehistoric algae that lay dormant for nearly 7,000 years at the bottom of the Baltic Sea, offering new insight into how microscopic life can survive extreme conditions for ...

In the 1990s, fewer than 350 people spoke Inari Sámi. Today, experts say about 500 people speak the near-extinct language, and the movement to learn it is growing. Ingrid Gaup braids dried "shoe ...

While preparing to build a power substation next to a Utah residential subdivision, a prehistoric field of dinosaur and other ... In the aftermath of a mass extinction at the end of the Triassic ...