Scientists offer a new idea for why orb-weaving arachnids add decorations known as stabilimenta to their webs.

Trilobites lived in all Earth’s oceans for hundreds of millions of years. They had tough exoskeletons, which made them more likely to fossilise. The detailed fossil record of trilobites shows how ...

Researchers found more than a hundred lizards of nearly 60 species that survived losing a limb, with some even seeming to ...

Elizabeth Shaw was born in 2058 to British parents, but spent much of her life in South Africa, where her parents were missionaries. After losing her father to Ebola, she travelled extensively. She ...

The Wisconsin site is famed for its preservation of ancient soft-bodied organisms like leeches—leading Kenneth Gass, a paleontologist at the Milwaukee Public Museum not involved with the study, to ...

Australia’s First Peoples may or may not have hunted the continent’s megafauna to extinction, but they definitely collected ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, Australia was still home to enigmatic megafauna—large land animals such as giant marsupial ...

A Barrackville man known to his friends and family as “Wooly Mammoth” passed away Oct. 10 at J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown. Emmel Ray Garton Jr. is survived by his wife of 54 years, Mary ...

Incision marks likely made by humans on the fossilised bone of an ancient kangaroo challenges the ‘humans wiped out ...

GH picks the best kids books of 2025, including board books, picture books, graphic novels, and more nominated by librarians and tested with children.

The Waukesha Biota was the center for massive paleontological information, and new revelations found the origin of a ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, Australia was still home to enigmatic megafauna - large land animals such as giant marsupial wombats, flightless ...