Fossils
Ancient fossil fills a 75 million-year gap and rewrites lizard and snake history
A new study of an ancient fossil has found it to be the earliest lizard known, so far. It shows they survived one the greatest mass extinctions on...
12 days agoCollection of news articles related to earth science from uncovered fossils to new species - read about the latest discoveries in the animal kingdom.
Fossils
It's less than 2cm long, but this 400-million-year-old fossil fish changes our view of vertebrate evolution
A 400-million-year-old fossilised fish skull gives us very early and previously unknown clues about how boney fishes evolved into the vertebrates we...
17 days ago
Sharks
'Hidden sharks': how we found a new way to detect them
Sleuthing scientists are using environmental DNA to help figure out which sharks swim where.
one month ago
New Species
This adorable, thumbnail-sized pygmy squid is a new species
New to science: the Hallam's pygmy squid, officially known as Idiosepius hallami.
3 months ago
Fossils
This giant tortoise was chomped by an ancient mystery croc
A prehistoric murder mystery...
4 months ago
Fossils
That time a prehistoric shark took a bite out of a turd
The one-of-a-kind story of an ancient shark that broke a tooth off on a croc turd.
4 months ago
New Species
New species discoveries from the unique and threatened Greater Mekong
Two fish, three mammals, 11 amphibians, 11 reptiles and 88 plants.
6 months ago
Discoveries
Found in amber: Ticks with a taste for dinosaur blood!
Step aside, mosquito. This piece of Burmese amber has a tick inside – still grasping onto the feather of its dinosaur host.
6 months ago
Discoveries
Tasmanian tigers were going extinct before we pushed them over the edge
The new Tasmanian tiger genome reveals some fascinating facts about this extinct marsupial...
6 months ago
Discoveries
Tiny jumping spider snags a tadpole in India's Western Ghats
Jumping spiders are spry little hunters, but they weren't known to tackle vertebrate victims – until recently. A new paper documents a potentially...
6 months ago
Discoveries
New details on the lives and deaths of frozen Ice Age kittens
Research on the remains of Siberia's famous cave lion cubs has revealed new details about their very short lives.
6 months ago
Fossils
Hundreds of fossilised eggs reveal the nesting habits of ancient flying reptiles
Some of the eggs even had the remains of pterosaur embryos preserved inside!
6 months ago
Discoveries
Frozen baby mammoth 'Lyuba' goes to Australia
The celebrity woolly mammoth is spending some time Down Under...
6 months ago
Discoveries
Life forms found in Tasmanian swamps have a 3.5-billion-year-old legacy
They're the most ancient signs of life on earth...
7 months agoIn Siberia, a perfectly preserved frozen cave-lion cub
The little cave lion has been frozen in time by the Siberian permafrost for at least 20,000 years.
7 months ago
