A team of researchers analyzed a 12-million-year-old fossilized bone discovered in Colombia's fossiliferous Tatacoa Desert ...

Terror birds were apex predators some 12 million years ago in South America. A newly published discovery could be the largest yet.

Researchers including a Johns Hopkins University evolutionary biologist report they have analyzed a fossil of an extinct ...

In spite of its nationwide fame, the huemul (or south Andean deer) teetered on the brink of extinction just a few years ago.

The potato bug isn’t a true bug or a cricket, nor is it native to Jerusalem. It’s thought that Franciscan priests working on ...

Arapaima are the largest freshwater fish in South America—and a keystone species in the Amazon River ecosystem.

The world is full of deadly animals and insects, with some of the most innocuous-looking ones that can actually be the most poisonous ...

A 12-million-year-old fossil has revealed what may be the largest known "terror bird" ever found, according to paleontologists.

Thaís Pansani examines the marks humans left on megafauna bones to determine when people arrived in South America and how ...

Its appearance in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is the mussel’s first confirmed detection in North America, according to a ...

The fossil was on display in a museum, but unlabeled and hidden right under paleontologists’ noses for 20 years.

While past terror bird fossils placed the meat-eating birds at 3 to 9 feet tall, new findings suggest that some were even ...