An 11-year-old girl and her father discovered the remains of the largest marine reptile ever known, Ichthyotitan severnensis, ...

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Could aquatic mammals, such as whales, orcas, and bottlenose dolphins, ever evolve to live on land again? It seems the ...

For years, a mysterious fossil specimen defied categorization, until one paleontologist made a surprising discovery.

On Jan. 29, the sky above Mexico City’s Zócalo plaza was filled with the floating figures of giant balloon whales. Hundreds ...

ALBUQUERQUE — The recovery of the smallest subspecies of gray wolf in North America is inching forward, an annual population ...

In a lecture in Rio, the director of the Center for Health and Human Performance at the University of London spoke about the ...

Most people think a meteor killed the dinosaurs - but that wasn’t Earth’s biggest extinction. The Permian-Triassic extinction event wiped out over 90% of marine life and 70% of land species. It was ...

The Mesozoic Era extinctions formed the world as we know it today. Read about what caused them and which animals survived.

A Texas representative wants to remove a rare lizard from the endangered species list, which would pave the way for oil and ...

The pangolin species is highly susceptible to stress, which is why they're rarely ever kept in captivity. According to the International Fund for Animal Welfare, keeping these animals captive — even ...