A 150-million-year-old skull unearthed in Spain is so rare, scientists say it changes what we know about stegosaur evolution.

Many of the most vexing enigmas in the annals of scientific inquiry do not originate in outer space or exotic locales such as ...

Children in Hythe will have the chance to get up close to a range of exotic animals when a special encounter comes to the town library later ...

Children in Hythe will have the chance to get up close to a range of exotic animals when a special encounter comes to the ...

The hominin family tree is more like a complicated, tangled bramble. Homo sapiens is the only member of the genus left today, ...

In 2019, two Harvard researchers visiting the Natural History Museum of Utah pulled open a drawer of confiscated Cambrian ...

Some octopuses that lived over 72 million years ago were as long as whales. These huge predators may have been the largest invertebrates ever.

After losing its original eyes, one of our distant ancestors may have done what evolution does best: tinkered with what was available, reshaping a single central visual organ into two new eyes. That’s ...

There may be twice as many vertebrates on the planet as previous estimates claimed, according to a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. That's ...

An illustration of a four-eyed myllokunmingid, a jawless fish that lived more than 500 million years ago Xiangtong Lei and Sihang Zhang Many spine-bearing creatures, or vertebrates, have a curious bit ...

A new study warns that 15-23% of the Philippines’ 1,294 terrestrial vertebrates face extinction, with amphibians and mammals at highest risk. Endemic species are most vulnerable, yet many lesser-known ...

A fossil with eyes on stalks and a clawed trunk, the Tully monster has defied classification for over 70 years—and still has scientists scratching their heads. Museum staff, including Eugene S.