A new species of the sauropod dinosaur genus Mamenchisaurus has been discovered in China dating back to the Late Jurassic ...

Human laughter may trace its evolutionary beginnings to vocalizations made during play. This type of "laughing" is found in ...

190 years ago Charles Darwin stepped ashore in Falmouth at the end of a five year voyage that would transform the way in which we all think about nature. But how does his work and that of his fellow ...

Birds possess key neural and behavioral markers suggesting consciousness is more widespread in animals than previously ...

Deception is everywhere in nature. Animals and plants routinely cheat, lie and manipulate for their own benefit. One example ...

The dental development of modern bears does not follow the typical pattern seen in most mammals. The reason lies millions of ...

The Avengers face some powerful villains, some of whom are so formidable they could take down DC's greatest heroes, the ...

Recent advances in botanical sciences have highlighted the significance of understanding the evolutionary and biogeographic processes underlying ...

A newly identified crocodile relative from Egypt pushes back the origins of the marine-hunting dyrosaurids by millions of years. The fossil, Wadisuchus kassabi, shows a mix of primitive and advanced ...

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A tiny 242-million-year-old fossil from Devon is shaking up scientists’ assumptions about the earliest members of the lizard lineage. Instead of the expected skull hinges and palate teeth typical of ...

What happens when a species is the only of its kind? This phenomenon is called a monospecific taxon. Studying these special ...