Imagine creatures that have survived since the time of dinosaurs. Species like the tuatara, sturgeon, crocodile, hagfish, ...

Millions of years ago, catastrophic events wiped out most life on Earth—but some ancient animals managed to survive against ...

Mass extinctions have shaped the course ... Ginkgo biloba, often dubbed a living fossil, is a tree species that has survived for over 270 million years. While not an animal, its endurance through ...

Biodiversity is declining across the planet, but what about in Wisconsin, how do we measure it, and how can we stop it?

People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...

China’s successful rebranding of the giant panda has created an unexpected challenge for Beijing, as it aims to balance its ...

Before species go extinct, their populations often shrink and become isolated . Healthy populations tend to have a large gene ...

Sometimes, it really does help to Google it. Especially when you’re a stumped scientist who’s exhausted all other angles. That’s what one research team did after all else had failed.

A near-perfect fossilized skull discovered in Antarctica reveals the bridge between prehistoric and modern birds, a new study ...

A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...

These reptiles have roamed the oceans ... than 100 million years ago. They survived the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs and squeaked past a marine extinction two million years ago that cut ...