Do the bones of all Nile crocodiles have the same number of growth marks as their age? And can such growth rings be counted to accurately gauge the age of these reptiles? Is this also an accurate ...

The world’s largest scorpion, Gigantometrus swammerdami, can grow nearly nine inches long. Native to India, this ancient predator predates dinosaurs and is surprisingly mild-mannered.

By drawing water into an internal, muscular cavity and forcefully expelling it through a flexible, narrow tube, known as a siphon, cephalopods are able to create forward thrust, propelling themselves ...

A research team led by Dr. Márton Rabi from the Biogeology Department of the University of Tübingen, together with Máté ...

A nearly complete 90-million-year-old dinosaur fossil from Patagonia, Alnashetri, reveals how alvarezsaurs evolved and shrank over time.

Tyrannosaurus rex may have taken far longer to grow up than scientists once thought. By analyzing growth rings in fossilized leg bones from 17 tyrannosaur specimens and using new statistical methods, ...

A plantation worker photographed this new genus of mammal in New Guinea, thought to have been dead for 6,000 years.

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new way that giant embryonic cells divide—without relying on the classic “purse-string” ring long thought essential for splitting a cell in two. Studying ...

As humpback whales recover, older males are fathering more calves, revealing how whaling still shapes mating and competition ...

BENEZETTE — The Elk Country Visitor Center will host public programs in the month of March 2026.