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New Fossils Reveal Toothed Platypus With Strong Bite in Ancient Australian Lakes

The finds fill a rare gap in the platypus fossil record by showing how a toothed ancestor fed and swam.

Ice Age Megafauna Loss Is Still Reshaping Food Webs, Most Strongly in the Americas

Field Study Finds Urine Dampens Electrical Signaling in Mushroom Networks

Honey Bee Waggle Dance Precision Depends on the Audience, Experiments Show

New Species Crocodylus lucivenator, Likely Predator of 'Lucy,' Described From Ethiopia

Bromacker Fossil Site Redated to 294.1 Million Years Old

New Triassic Croc-Line Reptile Grew From Four-Legged Juvenile to Bipedal Adult

Herzog’s Ghost Elephants Begins Staggered Streaming Rollout: JioHotstar in India, Disney+ and Nat Geo Wild in South Africa

Amber Time Capsules Hint at Ancient Ant Interactions

Study Confirms First Ant Species With No Males or Workers

307-Million-Year-Old Skull Pushes Back the Origin of Plant-Eating on Land

Study Recasts Prototaxites as an Extinct Branch of Complex Life

Global Species Discovery Accelerates, University of Arizona Study Finds

Ants Built Bigger Societies by Making Cheaper, ‘Squishier’ Workers, Study Finds

New Middle Triassic Crocodile-Line Predator, Tainrakuasuchus bellator, Described From Brazil

Seven New Frog-Like Leafhoppers Described From Uganda's Kibale National Park

Scientists Report World’s Largest Spider Web in Sulfur Cave on Greece–Albania Border

Study Finds 106-Square-Meter Cave Web on Albania–Greece Border Hosting About 110,000 Spiders

Study Finds World’s Largest Spider-Web Complex in Sulfur Cave on Greece–Albania Border

Scientists Document 100-Square-Metre Cave Web Housing About 110,000 Spiders