Australian lungfish are known to be ultra-survivors, but this lungfish is pushing the boundaries even for its own kind. At ...

Skin-secreted adhesives, or glues, are highly effective defense adaptations that have evolved recurrently in a small number ...

By protecting 0.7% of Earth's land, we can save one-third of endangered tetrapods species. The zones house unique species ...

By Bobby Bascomb Just 0.7% of the world’s land surface is home to one-third of the world’s most threatened and unique ...

Coelacanths are deep-sea fish that live off the coasts of southern Africa and Indonesia and can reach up to two meters in ...

Coelacanth fossils like these are useful because two known coelacanth species are still alive today. They are likened to ...

Some argue the eggs came first - laid by dinosaur ancestors of the fluffy, squawky bird that funds establishments such as KFC ...

Here, the La Belle France site has been visited, the existence of the painted tusked animal is confirmed, and the presence of tetrapod fossils in its immediate vicinity is supported. "Altogether, they ...

In 2009, while examining an old quarry, Charles Ver Straeten, the curator of sedimentary rocks at the New York State Museum, ...

Are the world's oldest 'living fossil' coelacanths still evolving? Groundbreaking fossil research links plate tectonics with ...

Today, the living coelacanth Latimeria (Sarcopterygii: Actinistia) is an iconic, so-called ‘living fossil’ within one of the ...

Research shows that conserving just 0.7% of the world’s land could protect a third of threatened tetrapod species. The study ...