Learn about two marsupial species discovered in New Guinea that were thought to have been extinct for 6,000 years.

When the asteroid ended the age of non-avian dinosaurs, it cleared ecological space on a global scale. Small survivors ...

According to a statement released by the University of Tübingen, an international team of researchers who evaluated a fossil femur unearthed at the site of Azmaka in southern Bulgaria suggests that it ...

A citizen scientist’s wildlife photo helped researchers confirm two marsupial species thought extinct for over 7,000 years are still alive.

Roughly 6,800 mammal species are known to exist, compared with about 8,800 species of amphibian, 11,000 species of bird and 12,500 of reptile. Yet when most people picture biodiversity, they often ...

Across many warm regions of the world, scorpion stings are a serious health risk. A sting late at night can become a medical emergency in places where venomous species live near homes. Hundreds of ...

A fossil skull barely 1 inch long has proved to be a newborn reptile from Brazil’s Late Triassic, a period more than 230 million years ago when early reptiles dominated land ecosystems. Its tiny jaw ...

Comparisons show the face size falls between a gorilla and an orangutan, with shape closer to orangutans and bonobos, and a ...

Mammals are not especially diverse. Roughly 6,800 mammal species are known to exist, compared with about 8,800 ...

India’s automobile industry is divided over a proposal by NITI Aayog to classify flex-fuel vehicles (FFVs) and compressed ...