Researchers have discovered an ancient moth-like sea predator in a treasure trove of museum fossils in Canada. The ...

"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, ...

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

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

Amid the hubbub, several unfamiliar sea creatures caught their attention — and for good reason. The out-of-place animals turned out to be first-of-their-kind sightings. Scientists with the ...

Many marine creatures like ammonoids and conodonts went extinct, as well as land animals ... The planet was warm, and sea levels were high. As a result, large landmasses were flooded with seawater.