Originally from South America, the charismatic tegu made its way to the United States via the pet trade of the 1990s. After ...

Bourque’s co-worker and co-author, Edward Stanley, helped use machine learning and artificial intelligence to compare the fossil to a database of tegu bones, confirming Bourque’s suspicions that it ...

"In each burrow move, the animal disappears from view by retreating into its burrow, then a small mound appears a short ...

The fossil, Shishania aculeata, was originally thought to be an early mollusc, a group that includes snails and clams.

In a woodland of southern Africa, a clawed creature with “large” black eyes tucked itself under a rock and waited. Something about the hiding place caught the attention of nearby scientists searching ...

A newly discovered fossilized giant trapdoor spider in New South Wales is captivating both scientists and the public. This ...

A complete Mixodectes pungens skeleton reveals it was a leaf-eating, tree-dwelling mammal closely related to primates and ...