Remarkable new fossil discoveries in New Zealand are driving a significant reassessment of our understanding of the early ...

Many birds on Rēkohu Chatham Islands show how ‘island syndrome’ influences evolution – they are distinct but remain closely ...

Discovered on a beach in Australia, a tiny, sharp-toothed whale fossil is rewriting the history of how ocean giants evolved ...

Over 15 years of fossil excavations in Tanzania and Zambia have revealed a vivid portrait of life before Earth’s most devastating mass extinction 252 million years ago. Led by the University of ...

A peer-reviewed study published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society has documented the discovery of an ...

They enthralled sailors. They inspired Darwin. Then, by the mid 19th-century, the iconic Floreana tortoise was gone. Here’s how a group of persistent scientists unlocked the secrets to bringing them ...