Long before big cats, terror birds reigned as apex predators. Here’s how these flightless birds hunted, and why they went ...

Tucked away in western Iowa’s rolling hills sits Walnut, a town that moves at the pace of a gentle breeze through cornfields ...

When you think of birds, you might imagine wings flapping silently against a blue sky. The kākāpō, however, lacks these ...

Over the past half century, researchers have established that birds evolved from dinosaurs: specifically, the theropods, the ...

Virginia needs to bring much more renewable energy online to meet the commonwealth’s energy needs and protect our environment ...

Deep inside a Caribbean cave, paleontologists have uncovered a scene that reads like gothic natural history: tiny bees once ...

Crocodiles and alligators are usually the apex predators in whatever environment they live in. Their massive jaws and armored ...

By cutting into a tiny throat bone, Princeton's Chris Griffin showed that it belonged to an adult of a smaller tyrannosauroid ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom promoted California as an antidote to the Trump agenda on Thursday, telling lawmakers during a wide-ranging ...

Despite multiple mass extinctions, the frilled shark has managed to thrive for 100 million years. Today, it remains one of ...

The humble horseshoe crab, an ancient species crawling seafloors since before the dawn of the dinosaurs, was durable enough ...

Kouxian, or ancient jaw harp, is the earliest string instrument that has been found in China. By placing kouxian between the lips and tapping it with the fingers, the instrument can produce sounds, ...