The name of a new species of fossil billfish honors a world-leading paleontologist who inspired generations of young ...

This is a reconstruction of the early Eocene (52 million-year-old) fauna that inhabited the rainforest around a northern British Colombia lake. The tapiroid Heptodon drinks in the shallows, while the ...

The rib belonged to a zygorhiza, a toothed whale that lived 34 to 38 million years ago and grew up to 18 feet long. Whale ...

The most significant drivers of extinction are habitat loss, climate change, pollution, and invasive species. For the red ...

In 1916 the paleontologist H.F. Osborn published one of the strangest books on evolution I have ever read. Titled The Origin and Evolution of Life: On the theory of action, reaction and interaction of ...

A team of geologists and palaeontologists has discovered that, some 50 million years ago, there was a low-lying continent separating Europe from Asia that they have named Balkanatolia. At the time, it ...

Early Eocene forest, Wyoming, U.S. Illustration by Julius Csotonyi, Smithsonian Institution Pollinators play a vital role in fertilising flowers, which grow into seeds and fruits and underpin our ...

A team of French, American and Turkish palaeontologists and geologists led by CNRS researchers 1 has discovered the existence of a forgotten continent they have dubbed Balkanatolia, which today covers ...