Actor’s environmental activism saw the tribute in his honour after researchers discovered the small brown amphibian in ...

Clearly, no Australian government is likely to spend anything like that on protecting its native animals, even though it will ...

This is the Southern Darwin Frog, named after the famed scientist. The creatures were first discovered in Chile in 1841, but recently they nearly went extinct after the chytrid fungus wiped out 90% of ...

He and other researchers suspect that the scars were carved by giant ground sloths that roamed the region until they went extinct more than 10,000 years ago. “This is an archaeological and ...

Life-sized Titanoboa replicas are displayed in various museums around the globe. These exhibits educate the public about this prehistoric giant. Additionally, they highlight the importance of ...

Here's what that looks like in the body. A 161 million-year-old fossil, linked to a line of extinct frog-like amphibians, is the oldest tadpole ever found. In an elaborate experiment, scientists ...

A crocodile-like creature bit the neck of a flying dinosaur some 76 million years ago – and scientists have proof. Archaeologists found the fossilized neck bone of the young pterosaur in Canada ...

Splendid Poison frog (Oophaga speciosa ... However, the Megalodon, an extinct species of giant shark, is often considered one of the most powerful predators in Earth’s history due to its immense size ...

Left: An illustration of a pterosaur by Julius Csotonyi. Right: The neck vertebra of cryodrakon boreas is on display in the Royal Tyrrell Museum’s Fossils in Focus exhibit, where visitors can ...

The vertebra belonged to a juvenile Azhdarchid pterosaur, a species of giant, prehistoric flying reptile with bones similar to birds, making them thin and typically poorly preserved, researchers said.