A new study led by Prof. Chen Hongsong from the Institute of Subtropical Agriculture of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has ...

Traditional methods like fish nets, underwater cameras were unable to scour unexplored areas, a gap that the recent study, ...

If current extinction trends continue, global shark populations will lose much of their variety, thereby threatening ...

Traditionally, paleoanthropologists believed that Homo habilis, as the earliest big-brained humans, was responsible for the earliest sites with tools. The idea has been that Homo habilis was the ...

Two species of disease-carrying mosquitoes have been found in the UK - and are spreading as the climate warms, scientists have warned. Aedes aegypti, also known as the Egyptian mosquito, and Aedes ...

The story behind the award-winning photo of an elusive brown hyena bringing new life to the Namib Desert. At night, the long-abandoned diamond mining town of Kolmanskop is almost empty. The tourists ...

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Jurassic ‘sword dragon’ prehistoric reptile. Credit: Dean R. Lomax / CC BY 4.0 Scientists have identified a rare species of ichthyosaur, a prehistoric marine reptile, from a nearly complete skeleton ...

A dolphin-sized monster that swam the oceans 185 million years ago has been identified as a new species dubbed the “sword dragon.” The near-complete fossil was discovered by hunter Chris Moore in ...

Arctic seals are being pushed closer to extinction by the climate crisis, while more than half of the world's bird species are in decline due to deforestation and agricultural expansion, a new ...