Paleontologists in China have made a stunning discovery with the unveiling of Yuanmouraptor jinshajiangensis, a new ...

Fish don’t exist. In her novel “Why Fish Don’t Exist,” Lulu Miller points out that a true “fish” clade containing an ancestor ...

Researchers who have studied genetic evidence of iguanas suggest the ancient reptiles traveled nearly 5,000 miles from North America to Fiji on floating vegetation.

In a nutshell Ferruaspis brocksi was found with its stomach contents, skin pigmentation, and even a parasitic mussel still intact, offering a rare glimpse into its life and environment 15 million ...

Twenty million trees will be planted and 2,500 hectares (6,178 acres) of new woodland created in the west of England as part of a "national forest" drive, the government has announced. The Western ...

By floating on a raft of downed trees and broken branches ... the longest transoceanic migration of any nonhuman land vertebrate. "We often forget how vast the Pacific Ocean is," says Mozes ...

Such a voyage across nearly 5,000 miles of open ocean would be the longest known by a nonhuman vertebrate. Rafting — the term scientists use for hitching a ride across oceans on uprooted trees ...

It was a year when fire seemed to engulf the continent. Flames surged through the pinyon-juniper woodlands of the Southwest, the ponderosa pine stands of the Rocky Mountains, the mixed conifer ...