Environmentalist and documentarian Avi Lewis is taking another swing at federal politics. This time, he wants to lead the NDP ...

The Mississippi River floodplains are home to one of Earth’s most impressive river monsters: the alligator gar. Known to ...

A 410-million-year-old fossil shows ancient lichens were shaping Earth’s surface long before forests took root.

A rare trapdoor spider, Aptostichus ramirezae, discovered in Iran, features a tail-like appendage, a trait thought extinct for millions of years. This ...

A giraffe's long legs aren't just for height, they save energy by reducing how hard the heart works to pump blood upward ...

In what might be the coolest solution to "how to find fossils", a new study has revealed how we can take to the skies when ...

An extinct species of rhino that lived inside the Arctic Circle 23 million years ago has been discovered. The nearly complete ...

Even in a world committed to tackling climate change, premature deaths associated with air pollution could still rise in ...

British museum fossils, misidentified for over a century, are now known to be ancient coelacanth fish. This discovery dramatically increases the number of known specimens from the British Triassic ...

Researchers have uncovered dozens of long-misidentified coelacanth fossils in British museums, some overlooked for more than ...

Fossils from New Mexico change how we look at dinosaur history.

AN animal that was believed to have been extinct has been rediscovered in the UK. Almost 80 years since it was last spotted, ...