Paleontologists have unearthed a remarkably preserved fossil snake in Brazil that is reshaping ideas about how the earliest ...

A new snake’s unique head anatomy suggests early snakes were even more diverse than thought. This one was a rare burrower.

Paleontologist Paul Sereno and an international team have named a new species of sail-backed predator, Spinosaurus mirabilis, ...

A remotely operated vehicle captured live footage of the barreleye fish, Macropinna microstoma, hovering in the deep Pacific ...

For generations, biology textbooks have drawn a clean line, only four limbed animals like mammals, birds and reptiles have a ...

Fossils almost never preserve brains, which is why a tiny fish from roughly 300 million years ago is drawing so much ...

Far below the sunlit surface of the Pacific Ocean lives a fish that seems to challenge ordinary ideas about anatomy. Known as the Pacific barreleye, this small deep-sea species spends its life in a ...

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Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

The inside of a fish’s skull has long seemed like a simple story. Scientists assumed that the hollow space left behind after soft tissue decay could act as a reliable stand-in for the brain. This idea ...

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