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 ...

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 ...

What are the 10 most colorful animals? We've done the research! Jump in to read about which are the ultimate colorful animals ...

I did not know that anything was unusual until I was seven months pregnant. Inside the exam room, the technician dimmed the ...

Throughout the slow-flowing water, freshwater mussels act as animal engineers ... The mussel was given the species name “rarus” after the Latin word for rare, researchers said, “referring ...

If you’re planning on having a baby in 2025, then there are a lot of boxes to check before your little bundle of joy comes into this world ... ranked the rarest baby names in the United States ...