We’re only in the early stages of 2026, and one massive change from last year may have already occurred: there may actually ...

The 300 million-year-old Tyrannoroter heberti had an extra set of conical-shaped teeth, indicating it likely ate plants. It’s one of the earliest species to do so.

The Illinois Natural History Survey has been working to preserve historical specimens of organisms that originated in ...

We know the main reason that the age of the dinosaurs came to an end: an asteroid impact on the Yucatán Peninsula some 66 million years ago. But how the dinosaurs’ reign began is far less clear—and ...

There may be twice as many vertebrates on the planet as previous estimates claimed, according to a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. That's ...

The most effective conservation strategies for protecting vertebrates on a global scale are those aimed at mitigating the effects of overexploitation, habitat loss and climate change, which are the ...

Scientists have uncovered an unexpected genetic shift that may explain how animals with backbones first emerged and became so diverse.

Tyrannoroter heberti fossil shows one of the earliest land animals to eat plants, changing what we know about how ...

The earliest ancestors of all backboned animals, including humans, may have viewed the world with four eyes, not just two.

Scientists found a 307 million-year-old fossil, Tyrannoroter heberti, revealing one of the earliest known land vertebrates ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, the first animals to crawl onto land were strict meat-eaters, even as plants had already taken over the landscape. Now scientists have uncovered a ...