The Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi will open to the public on 22 November in Saadiyat Cultural District, marking a ...

Study warns that humans may be driving Earth toward a sixth mass extinction. The research shows species loss, but the future ...

"The pace of change we’re seeing today is unlike anything we know of in the past 66 million years," said ecologist Jack Hatfield.

High in the remote folds of the Andes, at more than 3,000 meters above sea level, Argentine researchers have unearthed ...

Researchers have unearthed near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya fossils of hand and foot bones belonging to an extinct human ...

Researchers in the Andes of Argentina discovered one of the oldest known dinosaurs as a species new to science. Lucas Fiorelli (CRILAR-CONICET), Martín Hechenleitner (CRILAR-CONICET) and Léa Leuzinger ...

Creatures that had ruled the planet for more than 170 million years — from the gigantic sauropods that shook the ground to the fearsome tyrannosaurs — disappeared forever. However, this is not a story ...

Instantly recognizable by their spiral shells, these ancient predators were relatives of modern squid and octopuses. Because ...

A missing fingertip offers a clue to Mako Nishimura's criminal past as one of Japan's few women yakuza. But after clawing her way out of the underworld, she now spends her days helping other retired ...

Human activity may be triggering the greatest extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, ...

Largely outshone by fossils of horses, the earliest camels are getting another look from scientists determined to sort out ...