The taxidermy collection represents the shop’s most famous and controversial offerings. These preserved animals range from common to exotic, small to surprisingly large. Each specimen showcases the ...

Between 280 and 200 million years ago, a group of animals evolved which would eventually give rise to mammals, including ...

Scientists have discovered a hidden partnership between ancient microbes that may explain how complex life first evolved on ...

The species in question was a therapsid, a group of animals that was the forefather to modern-day mammals, including humans.

A remarkable new discovery is shedding light on one of the greatest survival stories in Earth's history, and answering a ...

Unusually well-preserved fossils have provided the earliest known evidence of a land vertebrate that could pump air in and ...

If you trace the animal family tree back through the fossil record, the trail usually goes cold about 539 million years ago.

For the first time, paleontologists have discovered a 250-million-year-old fossil egg containing an embryo ...