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

The popular Oklahoma museum recently started its 15th year, and its parent company, Skulls Unlimited, celebrates its 40th ...

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

This isn’t just another ancient discovery — it may be a window into the spiritual life of some of our earliest ancestors. The burial of a woman, accompanied by animal remains, points to intentions far ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microscopic feathers provide clearest evidence yet of ceremonial clothing used in shamanic burial rituals in prehistoric ...