The Kawhia giant penguin Kairuku waewaeroa. Image credit: Simone Giovanardi. Permission for use of the image by media is granted by the artist, with credit.

Giant Waikato penguin: School kids discover new species

The rim of Cone D—inside the Okmok Volcano caldera—with the blue lake in the background. Credit: Nick Frearson

A journey into an Alaskan volcano

The extinction of their competitors allowed snakes to move into new niches and diversify enormously (Credit: Joschua Knüppe).

Modern snakes evolved from a few survivors of dino-killing asteroid

fossilized teeth from M. Latidens showing where cavities formed.

Oldest known mammal cavities discovered in 55-million-year-old fossils suggests a sweet...

500-million-year-old fossil represents rare discovery of ancient animal in North America

University of Tsukuba researchers have described a new apex predator from the lower Upper Cretaceous of Central Asia, Ulughbegsaurus uzbekistanensis, which coexisted with a smaller tyrannosauroid

Who was king before Tyrannosaurus? Uzbek fossil reveals new top dino

Titanokorys gainesi reconstruction. Illustration by Lars Fields, © Royal Ontario Museum.

Massive new animal species discovered in half-billion-year-old Burgess Shale

Jessica Pilarczyk (SFU) and collaborator Tina Dura (Virginia Tech) sample sediment cores from rice paddies of the Greater Tokyo Region that contain evidence for an earthquake from 1,000 years ago that potentially originated from a historically unconsidered earthquake source. Credit: SFU

Researchers identify new source for earthquakes and tsunamis in the Greater...

Volcanic eruption

Volcanic eruptions may have spurred first ‘whiffs’ of oxygen in Earth’s...

Entombed in limestone blocks, the newly studied fossil is the first nearly complete skeleton of a pterosaur species that was first described in 2003. Photograph by Victor Beccari

Confiscated fossil turns out to be exceptional flying reptile from Brazil

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