Insects belong to a broader group of six-legged animals called hexapods. This group also includes other less well-known, ...

Anacondas have been among the largest snakes for millions of years, according to fossil evidence from South America. A ...

The sudden appearance of complex animals has led scientists to argue that animals must have a “hidden history”, a period in ...

A mosasaur leaps from the water to snatch prey in this artist’s depiction. A Rutgers-led study suggests differences in the ...

Tiny microbes may help explain a large mystery in the fossil record: why soft-bodied animals were once preserved surprisingly ...

About 99 million years ago, this horned "hell ant" was in the midst of devouring a prehistoric cockroach when it got stuck in ...

A 50-million-year-old slab preserves hundreds of freshwater herring—and a window into an ancient landscape unrecognizable ...

The Sphinx is one of ancient Egypt's most enigmatic monuments, and now scientists have found that it could be hiding a very unusual secret.

What may have looked like a cross between a platypus and a beaverlike rodent and lived around 120 million years ago?

Las Vegas is known for nightlife, but a nearby desert attraction offers a different daytime outing, with Ice Age history, ...

The roughly two- to four-pound predator lived alongside dinosaurs some 165 million years ago. A fossil found in northern ...

An ancient crocodile fossil found in the same limestone used to build the Great Sphinx has gotten a new identity.