While Thrinaxodon liorhinus didn’t yet have the sophisticated hearing equipment of modern mammals, it shows that eardrums ...

Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History investigated old specimens that had been at the museum for decades and ...

Once written off as extinct, the silver-backed chevrotain forces scientists to confront how much of biodiversity still lives ...

Discover more about the egg-laying monotremes of Oceania and the ancient traits they still carry.

The Sumatran rhino looks like it wandered out of another era and somehow got lost in the present day. Smaller than its ...

The white-tailed deer became Mississippi’s official state land mammal in 1974, but its connection to the state reaches far ...

For over a century, it was assumed that science had a handle on the big categories of life on Earth: plants, animals, fungi, and microorganisms were t.

This ancient, leg-bearing snake is rewriting the story of how serpents slithered, and sometimes walked, their way through evolutionary history.

Sleep is one of life’s most universal behaviors. Despite its ubiquity, it’s also one of the most mysterious. Humans spend about a third of their lives with their eyes closed and their brains in states ...

Researchers have discovered fossil remains in Morocco that may represent one of the earliest stages of the human lineage, dating back 773,000 years ago. The findings, published today in the Nature ...

Learn about a 500,000-year old hammer made from elephant bone, used by early humans in England to sharpen stone tools.

There are five Montana National Parks including two gems in the National Park Service; Glacier and Yellowstone National ...