Researchers reveal Prototaxites, a giant Devonian fossil, was not a fungus or plant but a unique extinct lineage.

In 2007, a team led by Stanford geobiologist Kevin Boyce found that carbon isotopes in the fossils resembled those of fungi — ...

Reports of a dinosaur-like beast known as the Mokele-mbembe are on the rise in The Democratic Republic of Congo ...

Discover the many amazing similarities between humans and animals, get a buzz out of the remarkable life of bees, enjoy ...

Ecosystems which have never been seen before are being accidentally created by humans. They offer a stark look into the ...

Almost one year ago, Hannah and her daughter, Kinsey Huckabay, stumbled upon the strange looking, stocky critter for the ... horse — pronounced SHEH-VAL-SKI — is the rarest horse on Earth. Besides ...

The animal kingdom is full of wonders, and there’s still so much we have yet to discover. One mystery that has puzzled humans ...

In a study published in Systematic Biology, researchers from Imperial College London, UCL, Dalhousie University and the ...

Even animals with very small brains turn out to have cultural traditions, which poses a puzzler for biologists wondering what ...

A 558-million-year-old fossil uncovered Earth’s oldest known animal — say hello to Dickinsonia, a bizarre animal from ancient Ediacaran oceans. With no head or limbs, Dickinsonia resembled ...