A new study led by researchers at the University of Oxford has shown that the shape and orientation of coastlines ...
Hallucigenia was such an odd animal that palaeontologists reconstructed it upside-down when they first analysed its fossils - ...
The sadly now extinct rhino lived on the steppes and tundra of Europe and Asia, living alongside people for thousands of ...
Twelve years after Australia’s 'extinct' night parrot was rediscovered, a worrying new investigation has revealed swathes of ...
Birds are some of nature’s most beautiful creatures — but a few of our feathered friends are truly bizarre — like these 25 ...
Twelve years after Australia’s 'extinct' night parrot was rediscovered, a worrying new investigation has revealed swathes of ...
The Triassic period marked a chaotic chapter in Earth’s history following the planet’s largest mass extinction. This ...
A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems.
Discover how the first mass extinction put jawed fishes on the map, species that would later come to dominate animal life on ...
These "total monsters of fishes" are extinct today, though new clues about their lives come from CT scans and their closest ...
During a geological blink of an eye, glaciers formed over the supercontinent Gondwana, drying out many of the vast, shallow ...
The natural world is full of animals that seem to defy logic, blurring the line between reality and imagination. Some look ...