Some whittled down to just 30 percent of their original size, an adaptation to increasing temperatures known as the ...

The Florida Museum isn’t the first institution to send fossils into space. Small fossils of a bat, several dinosaurs, a crinoid, a hominid and a trilobite have also made the journey there and back.

For nearly 30 million years, a 2,000-pound beast known as the entelodont ruled a sweeping empire from Mongolia to what is now ...

On the windswept stretch of Koekohe Beach along New Zealand’s Otago coast, a group of massive, spherical rocks has been ...

Histroical conservation effort may be challenging, but the results will be valuable immediately and for years.

BEAST and S-DIVA analyses suggested a Paleocene origin of Polygonoideae in Asia. While most genera of Polygonoideae originated and further diversified in Asia, a few genera experienced multiple ...

She studies past episodes of global warming, such as the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum and other hyperthermal events to understand what caused past global warming in the first place and to ...

A few fossilized body parts hinted at an enigmatic bird's close ties to waterfowl like ducks and geese. A newfound skull may bolster that idea.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Leaf beetles' evolutionary success is linked to the incorporation of foreign genetic material and symbiotic relationships with bacteria. These beetles have ...

A misidentified Diatryma skull from Germany’s Geiseltal region was rediscovered, confirming the rare bird’s herbivorous nature. The fossil was originally unearthed in the 1950s in a former lignite ...