Imagine a creature nearly twice the size of a modern African elephant, which can weigh up to 6,000 kg. This was Elephas ...

A previously misidentified Triassic cynodont has been confirmed as a new species, revealing a surviving lineage of early ...

Ancient fossils from South China reveal the earliest bony fishes and shed new light on how jaws, teeth, and key vertebrate ...

Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants ...

Animals that adapt behaviorally may evolve physically more slowly, showing resilience rather than weakness in changing ...

This tiny, spiny lizard has a shocking secret. Scientists have finally uncovered exactly how and why its bizarre strategy ...

Newfound fossils from China suggest that complex animals were around millions of years earlier than thought, among them ...

A fast, land-running Triassic croc reveals how convergent evolution shaped predator bodies across time and environments.

The Greenland shark can live for centuries in near darkness, and for a long time scientists assumed its vision must be poor ...

A newly discovered prehistoric predator is reshaping the timeline of how Earth’s earliest apex hunters evolved.

The hectocotylus is both a reproductive and sensory organ, Harvard scientists and others have found. Octopuses are some of ...