Trilobites

A fossil bed in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco is allowing new insights into the anatomies of arthropods that lived a half-billion years ago.

A fatal fungal disease has devastated the world’s amphibians. But the fungus has a vulnerability: It cannot tolerate heat.

Researchers discovered painted ladies on a South American beach and then built a case that they started their journey in Europe or Africa.

There has long been anecdotal evidence of the wormy creatures taking to the air, but videos recorded in Madagascar at last prove the animals’ acrobatics.

Researchers analyzed a skull found in Montana of a plant-eating member of the ceratops family, finding distinct traits.

Researchers say the nearly mile-long swim was the longest by big cats ever recorded.

Computer simulations suggest that a collision with another planetary object early in Earth’s history may have provided the heat to set off plate tectonics.

An analysis of elephant calls using an artificial intelligence tool suggests that the animals may use and respond to individualized rumbles.

They build extensive burrow networks and don’t seem to mind when other woodland creatures use them as flameproof bunkers.

During a chaotic period some 50 million years ago, the strange deep-sea creatures left the ocean bottom and thrived by clamping onto their mates.

Cuts in the cranium, which is more than 4,000 years old, hint that people in the ancient civilization attempted to treat a scourge that persists today.

A genetic analysis of the German cockroach explained its rise in southern Asia millenniums ago, and how it eventually turned up in your kitchen.

Videos filmed by divers show that choking, blinding and sacrificing limbs are all in the cephalopods’ repertoire.

If spiders use their webs like a large external eardrum, researchers reasoned, perhaps spider silk could be the basis for a powerful listening device.

New research shows the “upside-down trees” originated in Madagascar and then caught a ride on ocean currents to reach mainland Africa and Australia.

The brittle star specimen suggests that the sea creatures have been splitting themselves in two to reproduce for more than 150 million years.

By sequencing an enormous amount of data, a group of hundreds of researchers has gained new insights into how flowers evolved on Earth.

Divers and marine biologists are getting a window into the lives of a red crustacean most often found in the guts of other species.

A science video maker in China couldn’t find a good explanation for why hot and cold water sound different, so he did his own research and published it.

Dice snakes found on an island in southeastern Europe fully commit themselves to the role of ex-reptile.

For the first time, scientists observed a primate in the wild treating a wound with a plant that has medicinal properties.

The scene ends badly, as you might imagine.

Indigenous rangers in Australia’s Western Desert got a rare close-up with the northern marsupial mole, which is tiny, light-colored and blind, and almost never comes to the surface.

A series of foot tracks in southeastern China points to the discovery of a giant velociraptor relative, paleontologists suggest in a new study.

A new study resets the timing for the emergence of bioluminescence back to millions of years earlier than previously thought.

Over time researchers have found fewer of the insects turning up in light traps, suggesting they may be less attracted to some kinds of light than they once were.

Ancient humans left behind numerous archaeological traces in the cavern, and scientists say there may be thousands more like it on the Arabian Peninsula to study.

When Ruby Reynolds and her father found a fossil on an English beach, they didn’t know it belonged to an 82-foot ichthyosaur that swam during the days of the dinosaurs.

An ascending jet’s contrail over Montreal added to the wonder of last Monday’s eclipse.

Extinct foxes and other animals were an important part of early South American communities, a new study has found.