New research makes it possible to reconstruct ancient ecosystems by analyzing the teeth of over 50,000 carnivorous animal ...

Feb. 12—"Walk Through Time" at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science is now complete with the addition of the Bradbury Stamm Construction Hall of Ancient Life. The permanent exhibition ...

Emerging findings suggest that viral DNA may play an important part in how embryos form, right after fertilization.

Prehistoric times were pretty strange, to put it lightly, and the same could be said of the species from that period. Here ...

Much of the Grampians National Park (Gariwerd) has already burned this summer – and the fire is not out yet. What does this ...

New research shows that ancient humans, Australopithecus, had a plant-based diet, challenging long-held meat-eating theories.

Sharks have ruled the Earth’s oceans for 400 million years and recent research on fossilized shark teeth has led to the ...

DNA analysis reveals the big, flightless moa birds ate — and pooped out — 13 kinds of fungi, including ones crucial for New Zealand’s forest ecosystem.

Imagine creatures that have survived since the time of dinosaurs. Species like the tuatara, sturgeon, crocodile, hagfish, ...