Climate change has a wide range of effects on wildlife. It affects seasonal migration, reproduction times, body size and mass ...

While the average person may believe we’re losing species faster than we can discover new ones, that may not be the case. A ...

Dinosaurs ruled the planet between 230 to 66 million years ago, although many other life forms had evolved well before their existence. Moreover, some of these living creatures still exist today.

In truth, it is not a paradox. The animals involved all seem perfectly eager participants in heterosexual behaviour, as well, so their reproduction is not compromised. It is, though, a puzzle—for ...

Wildcats are so elusive, they were thought to be extinct in parts of Europe. But they are making a comeback in some areas.

A tiny fossil fish from Alberta is forcing scientists to rethink a story that has sat quietly in textbooks for decades. It is a story about how freshwater fish rose to dominance, and how a few bones ...

Every year, scientists add thousands of new names to the great book of life. This momentum was initiated by the work of ...

Fossils of ceratopsian dinosaurs, the group containing Triceratops and other horned dinosaurs, have been vanishingly rare in Europe while being widespread across Asia and North America, until now. New ...

In a part of Romania better known for myth than science, a dense collection of fossils has emerged as one of the most revealing windows into prehistoric life in Europe. Tucked within the Hațeg Basin ...