A cavity in the middle of the rockhead poacher’s skull might be used like a maraca to produce sound, new research suggests.

During these waves of mass extinction, most vertebrate survivors were confined to refugia, or isolated biodiversity hotspots ...

Despite multiple mass extinctions, the frilled shark has managed to thrive for 100 million years. Today, it remains one of ...

Sitting in my campsite at Goblin Valley State Park, I saw an antelope ground squirrel standing erect on its back feet, which ...

The oldest fossilised remains of complex animals appear suddenly in the fossil record, and as if from nowhere, in rocks that ...

To get to the bottom of it, they looked at the fish’s anatomy and physiology and discovered something curious in their gills.

A tiny fossil fish from Alberta is forcing scientists to rethink a story that has sat quietly in textbooks for decades. It is ...

FRANKFORT, KY. (WSMV) - Kentucky residents looking to get rid of their natural Christmas trees are being urged by wildlife officials to donate them to another home — but one that’s underwater. While ...

The completion of a South American lung fish genome sequencing represents one of the most remarkable moments within current genetic research. Because of its 91 billion DNA base pairs, it has now ...

Last month, the Bean Life Science Museum opened its new exhibit, the Evolutionary Tree of Life, to the public. “It was a fabulous feeling,” said museum director Michael Whiting. Whiting said the ...

Some seabreams start life as one sex and finish as the other, using sex change as part of their normal growth. In a study of 68 seabream species, researchers uncovered how this switch evolved and why ...