Scientists have found that ancient horsetail plants change water chemistry in surprising ways, offering new clues about Earth ...

The Mississippi River floodplains are home to one of Earth’s most impressive river monsters: the alligator gar. Known to ...

An “alien plant” fossil discovered 55 years ago just outside of an abandoned town in Utah has no relation to any currently existing or extinct species, scientists revealed in a study last month.

A plant that lived 47 million years ago in what is now Utah is like nothing that lives on planet Earth today. The discovery of new fossils reveals that a species first found in 1969 is not a member of ...

Owning or selling this plant without a permit is illegal in South Africa, and offenders could face a hefty fine or jail time.

The modern coelacanth is a famous "living fossil," long thought to have died out, but first fished out of deep waters in the Indian Ocean in 1938. Since then, dozens of examples have been found, but ...

Researchers have uncovered dozens of long-misidentified coelacanth fossils in British museums, some overlooked for more than ...