Fossil

Learn about the extinct species of "dirt ant" that was found in 16-million-year-old Dominican amber, adding an important piece to an evolutionary puzzle.

Learn more about Thorin the Neanderthal, one of the last remaining specimens of ancient humans to be found in Eurasia.

Crocodylians are surviving members of a 230-million-year lineage called crocodylomorphs, a group that includes living crocodylians (i.e. crocodiles, alligators and gharials) and their many extinct relatives.

Paleontologists have discovered tracks belonging to meat-eating theropods and long-necked sauropods on the Isle of Skye.

Through an examination of remaining proteins left, scientists managed to determine that it was a rare example of a Denisovan fossil.

Learn about the ancient rhinos that lived and died together in Nebraska in the Middle Miocene.

Scientists have unveiled the oldest woolly mammoth specimen ever discovered in North America as part of a major DNA study spanning a million years of mammoth evolution.

A bone discovered in Taiwan turns out to have belonged to a Denisovan, a lineage previously identified only thousands of miles away.

We shouldn't be celebrating "de-extinction." We should be focused on the species that are currently in danger.

As soon as Colossal Biosciences declared that it brought the dire wolf back from extinction, everyone felt a sense of wonder.

The number of dinosaurs may have been stable before the asteroid impact, despite evidence that species were getting less diverse

Dire wolves, made famous by HBO's Game of Thrones, have been extinct for around 12,500 years. But thanks to genetic engineers at biotech company Colossal Biosciences, these majestic predators are back.

Startup Colossal Biosciences has edited the DNA of a gray wolf to produce what it says is a de-extincted animal. Does that make it a true dire wolf?

The discovery of nearly 20 alligator-size amphibians that died together during the Triassic in what is now Wyoming is providing scientists important clues about these creatures' lives.

An ichthyosaur was pregnant with twins when she died, a fossil from Cretaceous Chile reveals.

Dinosaurs are big business now, whether as $10 plastic T. rex toys or $45 million "alternative assets"

Also: testing the efficacy of WWI "dazzle" camouflage; how the male blue-lined octopus survives deadly mating ritual.

In a paper published in the journal BMC Biology, paleontologists described an extinct species of koinobiont parasitoid wasp found in mid-Cretaceous amber from the Kachin region of Myanmar.

'It probably spent most, if not all, of its life in the water eating… anything unfortunate enough to venture too far into the water.'

Lake Salda, in southwestern Turkey, bears a close resemblance to Mars' Jezero crater, which is currently being sampled by NASA's Perseverance rover.