The types of animals we know today have several similarities with those that lived on Earth millions of years ago, but also ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of dinosaur — one that was dog-sized and roamed what is now the United States around ...

Seeing dinosaur fossils on site is thrilling-for adults as well as children. The company Dinosaur Trips enables that, ...

An ant and fly from the Cretaceous period offer insights into the history of Ophiocordyceps, the fungal parasite made popular ...

This week, see zombie fungi trapped in an amber fossil, explore the sun’s hidden south pole, meet tool-using whales that groom each other, and more.

A mysterious "runner" dinosaur, only about the size of a dog, scurried around the ancient floodplains of what is now Colorado ...

When most people picture dinosaur eggs, they imagine something the size of a beanbag chair, or even bigger. After all, […] ...

In 2010, scientists found the first evidence of another hominin subspecies, known as the Danisovans. Now, they’ve identified ...

In the video game The Last of Us and its spin-off HBO series, humans fight to survive against cordyceps, a parasitic fungus ...

A new biography of Luis Alvarez captures the details but misses the drama in the career of a scientist whose work ranged from ...

A glob of 99 million-year-old amber has preserved an ancient fly in horror show fashion: with the mushroom-like fruiting body ...