An exhibition of fossils, said to be the biggest of its kind in the country, has been opened at University College Cork by the Taoiseach Micheál Martin.

From cancer-resistant mole rats to 200-year-old whales, evolution has equipped long-lived species with unique biological ...

Aging brings about a range of changes—often unwelcome—to our bodies: sagging skin, graying or thinning hair, and a decline in muscle strength and ...

Learn more about the prehistoric crocodile species that may have hunted prey like modern-day leopards, from the trees rather than the water.

Around 115 million years ago, northern Australia’s seas hosted a colossal shark that rewrites what we thought we knew about ...

An unusual type of fossilized fish can be found within the limestone of present-day Germany. The Late Jurassic era conditions ...

A newly discovered, carnivorous lizard ostensibly represents what most casual onlookers would perhaps perceive to be a ...

For decades scientists thought the Dunkleosteus terrelli utilized suction feeding. Now, we know the ancient predator used ...

A newly identified, armor-plated reptile from southern Brazil is rewriting what we know about life just before the age of ...

In a study appearing in Fossil Record, researchers Martin Ebert and Martina Kölbl-Ebert analyzed the remains of a unique ...

A new extinct flying reptile species has been discovered in fossilized dinosaur vomit. Known as "regurgitalite," the remains ...

T. rex's story has been turned on its head by a new discovery about one of the world's most famous fossil finds. One of the creatures locked in the “Duelling Dinosaurs” specimen is not a young T. rex ...