Therapsids, the ancient ancestors of mammals, were integral to Earth’s ecosystems during the middle to late Permian period.

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A new study suggests that scavenging—the act of eating the meat of dead animals—may have played a much bigger role in human ...

A fossil from the blustery plains of Patagonia is revising your book on one of the most elusive bands of hunting dinosaurs. The newly discovered dinosaur, Joaquinraptor casali, preyed on the soggy ...

We are lizard biologists, and to do our work we need to catch lizards—never an easy task with such fast, agile creatures.

When people build cities and introduce invasive creatures, resident critter populations sometimes adapt Brian Handwerk - Science Correspondent When humans build cities and introduce invasive species, ...

These "imposter crabs" have evolved independently through natural selection, as a rounded shell and signature sideways ...

But in over 10,000 recordings of wildlife on the African savannah, 95 percent of the species observed responded with far more ...