The idea that extreme climate change could one day cause a mass extinction and end the human dominance is not as farfetched ...

A lost cache of 250-million-year-old fossils from Australia has rewritten part of the story of life after Earth’s worst mass extinction. Instead of a single marine amphibian species, researchers ...

What may sound like a spa day for frogs is all part of a global effort to fight the chytrid fungus — the deadly pathogen responsible for what scientists have called the largest disease-driven loss of ...

The skull pieces sit in the rock like a faint fingerprint, the kind you could walk past in the Kimberley heat and never notice. But those scraps, collected more than 60 years ago from what is now ...

A newly identified ancient crocodile from the Late Triassic period looked almost nothing like its living relatives. Researchers described it as a “reptilian greyhound,” according to photos shared by ...

This newly discovered reptile ran like a greyhound — and its name is a tribute to the scientist’s high school teacher.

Learn how Triassic marine amphibian fossils from the Kimberley region in Australia reveal rapid global dispersal after the ...

A PhD student who identified a new species of ancient land-dwelling crocodile relative — one built more like a greyhound than any croc you’d see today — honored his high school physics teacher by ...

A new study has uncovered how strange amphibians that once lived in north-western Western Australia became early evolutionary ...

Paleontologists from the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm have identified evidence of ancient globe-trotting ...

As the Atlantic warms, many fish along the east coast of North America have moved northward to keep within their preferred temperature range. Black sea bass, for instance, have shifted hundreds of ...

For years, mass-market paperbacks have been credited with making books more accessible and affordable. The wee books could be found in places most people shop, like grocery stores, and were even ...