Researchers say the remarkable discovery was made using fossils, photos and a misidentified museum specimen ...

This endangered sea turtle was found in rough shape on a Texas beach. What happened next is giving researchers hope.

A new species, Tanyka amnicola, had one of the strangest jaws ever found. Discover how the living fossil changes what we know ...

So many humans live on Earth, it’s hard to imagine there are animals we haven’t seen for years, decades, or even millions of ...

Two marsupial species thought long extinct, until now known only from fossils, were found alive in New Guinea through a ...

The species is distinguished by its dense fur and fluffy tail ...

Scientists have described an exciting discovery: two marsupials that modern science thought to be extinct are still alive in ...

Scientists have confirmed that two marsupial species, known only from ancient fossils for more than 7,000 years, are still ...

Until now, scientists have only known about the animals from fossils. But they suspected the creatures might still be alive, because the remote, difficult-to-navigate region where the fossils were ...

For thousands of years, scientists knew of two tiny marsupials in New Guinea only through fossils and local legend. Researchers had long considered these species extinct. However, a team recently ...

In paleontology, lineages that drop out of the fossil record and then re-emerge after long periods are termed ‘Lazarus taxa.’ ...

Botanists from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) named the new species, Clusia nanophylla, because of the tiny size of the leaves, the smallest within the genus. This species has only ...