The microarchitecture of fossil pterosaur bones could hold the key to lighter, stronger materials for the next generation of ...
Between 66 million and 215 million years ago, long-necked reptiles called plesiosaurs inhabited the world’s oceans. By ...
Desert Living Dinosaurs Were as Good as Owls, Had Great Night Vision and Hearing Ability A study led by University of Oxford ...
Scientists also declared several other extinctions, including the first documented plant extinction in New Hampshire.
As more and more "historical" checklists are added to the platform, birds we've lost now mingle with those still hanging on.
Discover the remarkable bird fossil from Antarctica that is rewriting the story of bird evolution. Learn how this 69-million-year-old bird challenges previous theories.
Are humans the only species to drive another to extinction? Tom Ruppel | Dixon, California ...
Imagine a species with fewer individuals than seats on a school bus. Now imagine that each weighs more than the bus itself. That’s Rice’s whale, the only resident baleen whale in the Gulf of ...
FAU, SeaWorld San Diego, and the San Diego Natural History Museum have joined forces to scan the rare skeleton of the vaquita ...
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Scientists have long suspected that Mexican long-nosed bats migrate through southeastern Arizona, but without capturing and measuring the night-flying creatures, proof has been ...
Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...