Lichens are symbioses between fungi and algae (and/or cyanobacteria) that play important ecological roles and colonize many ...

Paleontologists have identified a new Early Miocene species of the rhinocerotid genus Epiaceratherium from the fossilized ...

The new species of hermit crab-associated sea anemone, Paracalliactis tsukisome, secretes and constructs a unique shell-like structure known as a carcinoecium, which expands the host hermit crab’s ...

Paleontologists have identified the 410-million-year-old specimens of Spongiophyton nanum from the Ponta Grossa Formation in ...

A fossil braincase and partial skull roof from Carnegie Museum of Natural History has been reassessed and reclassified, ...

The new fossil, encased in a piece of amber from the Kachin region of Myanmar, represents both the first mosquito larva ...

Paleontologists have examined two exceptional specimens of the end-Cretaceous, duck-billed dinosaur Edmontosaurus annectens.

Paleontologists have examined an exceptionally well-preserved, near somatically mature tyrannosaur skeleton from the Hell Creek Formation of Montana.

The most iconic mass extinction in Earth history occurred around 66 million years ago, as rapid environmental destruction led ...

Paleontologists in China have described a new species of the coelacanth genus Whiteia on the basis of two fossilized ...

Paleontologists have found the 2.9-cm-long fossilized foot bone of a possible bowerbird species at the Miocene locality of St ...