"De-extinction" takes center stage as environmentalists express dismay over erosion of the Endangered Species Act ...

Meet Mosura fentoni, a bizarre 506-million-year-old "sea-moth" with three eyes, claws, and an abdomen full of gills.

It turns out that preservation of these structures is widespread, confirming the ancient origin of this type of circulatory ...

The American West is renowned for dinosaur discoveries. But what about the Grand Canyon? The park was once home to some weird ...

Fossils reveal that sebecids, long-extinct land predators, survived far longer in the Caribbean than previously thought, ...

Mississippi has changed over millions of years and everything from sea monster to dire wolf fossils can be found here.

If you dig through the news, you may come across stories of different plants and animals enduring forest fires, sea ...

An asteroid at the end of the Cretaceous Period ended the dinosaurs, but earlier smaller extinctions dramatically set the ...

So many extinction-level events happened in ancient times, it is a wonder anything survived. These the ones that killed the ...

A long time ago, strange predators roamed the Caribbean — not just birds and snakes, but land-dwelling crocodiles that ...

But the 15-year-old California sea lion’s talent shines most in bobbing to disco ... “Scientists once believed that only animals who were vocal learners — like humans and parrots — could learn to find ...

The Department of the Interior is excited about the potential of ‘de-extinction’ technology,” U.S. Secretary of the Interior ...