Jan 30, 2015 by News Staff

This Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) has female plumage on its right, and male plumage on its left, a condition known as bilateral gynandromorph. Halfsider...

Jan 28, 2015 by News Staff

A team of paleontologists led by Prof Michael Caldwell of the University of Alberta, Canada, has found the fossilized remains of four ancient legged snakes...

Jan 5, 2015 by News Staff

Here’s a list of the top dinosaur and fossil finds of 2014, from a small cat-sized dinosaur to the most complete giant titanosaur yet discovered...

Jan 3, 2015 by News Staff

Scientists at the Wildlife Conservation Society have released their favorite camera-trap pictures of 2014. They use camera traps as a non-invasive tool...

Dec 24, 2014 by News Staff

According to a team of paleontologists from the United Kingdom and Japan led by Dr Haruyoshi Maeda of Kyushu University Museum, color vision evolved in...

Dec 11, 2014 by News Staff

A group of paleontologists led by Dr Andrew Farke from Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology has described a new genus and species of ceratopsian dinosaur...

Nov 24, 2014 by News Staff

Scientists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute using their remotely operated vehicle Doc Ricketts have filmed a rare and bizarre-looking...

Oct 29, 2014 by News Staff

A team of U.S. scientists headed by Dr Jeremy Feinberg of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ, has described a new cryptic species of leopard frog...

Oct 17, 2014 by News Staff

Using a reconstruction of North American drought history over the past millennium, a team of researchers from NASA and the Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty...

Sep 25, 2014 by News Staff

Canadian and U.S. paleontologists have announced the discovery of a new genus and species of ankylosaurid dinosaur, Ziapelta sanjuanensis. Life restoration...

Sep 19, 2014 by News Staff

Paleontologists Dr Rodney Scheetz of Brigham Young University’s Museum of Paleontology and Dr Terry Gates of North Carolina State University and North...

Sep 14, 2014 by News Staff

After more than seventy years of attempts to solve the mystery of Death Valley’s sailing stones, U.S. researchers led by Dr Brian Jackson of Boise...

Sep 3, 2014 by News Staff

A non-native species of camel cricket known as the Greenhouse camel cricket (Diestrammena asynamora) has spread into homes across the eastern United States,...

Aug 4, 2014 by News Staff

According to a new study led by Dr Joanne Whittaker of the University of Tasmania’s Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, the Australia’s...

Jul 1, 2014 by News Staff

According to a new study conducted by Washington State University anthropologists Dr Tim Kohler and Dr Kelsey Reese, pre-Columbian Native Americans experienced...

Jun 25, 2014 by News Staff

Elevated levels of the stress hormone cortisol could be linked with lower rates of participation in elections, says a new study published in the journal...

Jun 18, 2014 by Natali Anderson

A new species of diminutive baleen whale that lived between 3.5 and 2.5 million years ago (Late Pliocene) has been described by U.S. paleontologists led...

Jun 16, 2014 by News Staff

A new study reported in the journal Nature Climate Change questions fears that Europe and North America will experience more days of cold weather over...

Apr 25, 2014 by Enrico de Lazaro

The Alligator snapping turtle (Macrochelys temminckii), long thought to be a single species, is actually three species, according to a new study published...

Mar 19, 2014 by Enrico de Lazaro

U.S. paleontologists have discovered a new raptor dinosaur that lived in western North America during the Cretaceous period, about 66 million years ago. This...