Some paleontologists think that fossils recovered from Antarctica are evidence of birds similar to modern geese and ducks ...

Analysis of the fossil skin of a 183-million-year-old plesiosaur revealed that it had a mixture of smooth and scaly skin.

Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago ...

Dive into the findings of the first detailed study of plesiosaur skin, which was a strange mosaic of textures.

Ancient birds may have soared over their dinosaur relatives in the Late Jurassic. A new species found in China, known as Baminornis zhenghensis, shows that early birds already had some of their ...

“This fossil (Baminornis) indicates that Jurassic birds probably already had a global distribution and were much more ...

An American crodocile, certainly a female, has likely been around Sanibel island, Florida for several years. Another arrived ...

What happens when the biodiversity witnessed by one generation fades into memory the next? These questions are crossroads at ...

The Nicobar Islands are a biodiversity hotspot, home to unique species found nowhere else. Long isolated, these islands have ...

Winter is perhaps the best time of year to spot a North American river otter in the coastal estuaries of New Jersey. The ...

We are in the Caribbean with Michael's family, here to commemorate my father-in-law, Jack, a sailor who circumnavigated the globe for 10 years with my mother-in-law, Babs.

How do crocs propel their massive bodies straight up into the air? Find out how coordinated crocodiles defy gravity with their vertical jump.