For decades, an "extremely rare" fossil sat unidentified in Japan's Museum of Unique Insect Fossils. Discovered in 1988 in ...

Sometimes, it's hard to understand why certain dog breeds are at the risk of going extinct, especially when the breed in ...

As part of a program run by Zoos Victoria in Australia, Daisy and her canine teammate, Kip, have been on a mission to locate ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

Why do some ancient animals become fossils while others disappear without a trace? A new study reveals that part of the answer lies in the body itself. The research shows that an animal's size and ...

Analysis of the fossil suggests that the only two egg-laying mammals, platypuses and land-based echidnas, both descended from ...

Both animals occupy fissures in the coastline ... (The Galapagos penguin, one of the world's rarest, sees a glimmer of hope.) Fifty-four years ago, when I started this, I thought Galapagos ...

Two rare types of ticks have been discovered in Maine including one that could cause 'life-threatening' conditions in human ...

A previously unknown shark once swam around the shores of the UK more than 70 million years ago. The new species, named ...