A limestone quarry in Hunan province, China, has yielded more than 150 species dating back approximately 512 million years — ...

The Galápagos Islands are famous for their biodiversity, especially their giant tortoises. In 2000, however, scientists made a shocking discovery: a population of tortoises 70 miles away on Isabela ...

Now, fossils pulled from a single quarry in southern China are revealing what life looked like in the aftermath — and the discovery is rewriting what scientists know about one of the earliest chapters ...

FIU marine evolutionary biologist Heather Bracken-Grissom assisted in identification, coordinating with a third-party lab to ...

Scientists following humpback whales once brought to the brink of extinction in the South Pacific made a fascinating discovery: Older males were more likely to become fathers and younger males were ...

Researchers studying the soft-bodied Ediacaran biotas of the world generally accept that there are three distinct assemblages. The 575–560-million-year-old (Ma) Avalon Assemblage is best known from ...

Giant clams (Tridacna gigas), members of the family Tridacnidae and among the most striking inhabitants of tropical coral ...

The Wondiroi tree-kangaroo was believed to be extinct for decades, until it wasn't. Read here to learn more about these rare ...

To increase the breeding efficiency, scientists recommend first of all limiting the number of breeding herds - 1,500 deer per herd in the tundra and 800 in the taiga. Secondly, it is necessary to ...

Neuroscientists identify a CRF-neuron "switch" in the brain's BNST region that, when activated, allows for significantly faster unlearning of fear responses.