A fossil of Manipulonyx reshetovi, found in a Mongolian desert, shows how the dinosaur used its specialized claw to snatch ...

Earth’s first sponges may have been ghostly, soft-bodied pioneers—ancient animals that evolved long before their skeletons ...

A 6,000-year-old skeleton that survived a lion attack has been found, providing exceptional evidence of prehistoric community ...

Sibling alligators Steve and Wally live within UNI's Biology Department — one reader wondered how these 'gators came to call ...

Archaeologists uncovered the remains of at least 14 people near the Puémape Temple complex, with evidence pointing to ...

Our bones did not begin deep inside the body. They started in the skin, not long after the first complex animals took shape.

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

FILE: Dave Rempel, 28, a biologist with the Institute for Wildlife Studies, carries a juvenile bald eagle in a kennel to a ...

These abandoned and nearly-abandoned ghost towns along Route 66 connect the dots between Illinois and California, and each ...

Sixty years ago, these freshwater springs and forests were drowned by a 9,500-acre reservoir. Could the ecosystem finally be ...

On some beaches they were scattered lightly, while on others they were thick enough to immediately draw attention. At one ...

Ecologically, sea potatoes play an important role. They feed by ingesting sand and mud, extracting microscopic organic ...