A recent study, published in Papers in Palaeontology, discusses the reanalysis of the only known Idiorophus patagonicus ...

A rare 20-million-year-old sperm whale fossil from Patagonia reveals new clues about ancient marine life and extinction ...

A groundbreaking discovery in southern Chile has brought to light the first complete pregnant ichthyosaur from the Early ...

"De-extinction" takes center stage as environmentalists express dismay over erosion of the Endangered Species Act ...

Through his journeys in Ecuador, Quebec and India, Macfarlane explores what it means to recognise, in law and the imagination, that rivers are living entities.

New discoveries of fossil clawed footprints from Australia, published in Nature, push the origin of reptiles back in time by ...

Humpback whales are not always born in tropical waters, new research has shown -- challenging long-held assumptions about their breeding and migration behaviors, while raising new questions for marine ...

A new study suggests two fossil trackways found in Australia were made by an early amniote, a group that today includes ...

Fossil tracks found in Australia push the origin of reptiles back by 40 million years, altering the timeline of tetrapod ...

Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal on a slab of sandstone ...