At first glance, the insect trapped in golden resin looked like any other tiny victim of deep time. Only under close ...

A bumpy snailfish, Andean mouse opossum and ancient sea cow were just some of the many species described in 2025.

P. furnessi is considered endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’s Red List. Their current ...

Paleontologists have discovered the first known fossilized bee nests built inside ancient bones, uncovered in a cave that ...

A new study links climate stress to the disappearance of the early human species Homo floresiensis, known as the “hobbits” of ...

Scientists extracted RNA from a 130-year-old specimen, uncovering which genes were active before the animal went extinct.

Researchers in Sweden recovered RNA from a 130-year-old Tasmanian tiger, allowing them to identify which genes were active in its tissues before extinction.

The world still holds its secrets. Hidden under wet rocks, in the ocean’s twilight crevices, and in the minutiae of the ...

The discovery of a new dicynodont species suggests early land animals moved across Pangaea later and more widely than ...

In the age of dinosaurs—before whales, great whites or the bus-sized megalodon—a monstrous shark prowled the waters off ...

A spectacular fossil trove on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen shows that marine life made a stunning comeback after Earth’s ...

An extinct race in One Piece is not uncommon, even in a world full of fish-men and giants. Some races have almost disappeared ...