In biology and paleontology (the study of extinct organisms) there are a few ways to estimate the age of an animal's skeleton ...

Even with only jaws, Tanyka amnicola adds a new character to an ancient ecosystem that scientists are still trying to sketch ...

Meet Horridus — one of the most complete Triceratops fossils ever discovered. Found in Montana, Horridus at Melbourne Museum in Australia in the new exhibit "Triceratops: Fate of the Dinosaurs." The ...

The Iberian ribbed newt has one of the most gruesome defense mechanisms of any amphibian, ensuring its survival during a ...

Magician & Prankster Rahat Hossain assembles the absolute best moments from his skeleton driver series to showcase the most legendary reactions ever caught on film.

A nearly complete dinosaur skeleton discovered in Patagonia is helping scientists crack the mystery of alvarezsaurs, a bizarre group of bird-like dinosaurs. The fossil of Alnashetri cerropoliciensis ...

In Oklahoma’s temple of bone, science meets functional art, and flesh-eating beetles meet body parts from every continent ...

Researchers discovered that a 215-million-year-old reptile started life on four legs and switched to two as an adult.

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws ...

The discovery was led by University of Minnesota Twin Cities scientist Peter Makovicky along with Argentine paleontologist Sebastian ...

Picture a home so beautiful it looks like it’s made of glass—delicate, intricate, shimmering. Now imagine discovering that ...

Two new worm species were found living inside a real underwater "glass castle." ...