Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago ...

Pinpointing when birds diverged completely from dinosaurs has long remained a paleontological mystery.

According to myth, cave wyrms are terrifying creatures that live deep inside mountain caves, or sometimes in marshes and fens ...

Eelpouts are primarily bottom-dwelling species, found in deep trenches or around hydrothermal vents in some of the planet’s ...

Nintendo secures an anti-Palworld patent in the United States, signaling that its legal dispute with Pocketpair could go ...

Rarely seen and poorly understood, the future of our clouded leopards depends on urgent conservation efforts as it faces numerous threats such as poaching and deforestation ...

The field of paleo-inspired robotics is opening up a new way to turn back time and studying prehistoric animals.

In a national park of northern Thailand, a “slender” creature climbed up a rock using its “leaf-like” toes to grip the ...

Though sightings in Colorado are rare, these animals are crucial to the ecosystem as they help control populations of small ...

You might think that after 200 million years, we would have learned all we're ever going to know about plesiosaurs. Such is ...

For the first time, scientists have completed an in-depth analysis of fossilized soft tissues from a plesiosaur ...

Check out our stories here. The species was named Mexidracon longimanus, or the long-handed Mexican dragon, according to the study, highlighting the creature’s “most remarkable attribute.” It has a ...