Apr 3, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Chinese paleontologists led by Dr Tao He from the Zhejiang Museum of Natural History in Hangzhou have identified a new species of thalattosaur from a fossil...

Sep 17, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Biologists from the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt, Germany, have discovered a new species of snail-eater in the highlands of western Panama. Adult...

Jun 21, 2012 by Natali Anderson

Wall-climbing robots, bioadhesives or other sticky substances can benefit greatly from a discovery about the self-cleaning and reuse abilities of a gecko’s...

Jun 7, 2012 by Natali Anderson

A team of researchers at University of California in Berkeley has found that cockroaches can disappear in the blink of an eye by flinging themselves at...

May 30, 2012 by Natali Anderson

British biologists have found that the tuatara, an iconic New Zealand reptile, chews its food in a way unlike any other animal on Earth. An adult of the...

May 17, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have discovered fossilized remains of a 60-million-year-old South American giant turtle that lived in what is now Colombia. Reconstruction...

May 16, 2012 by Sci-News.com

British paleontologists have found signs of a degenerative condition similar to human arthritis in the jaw of a pliosaur, an ancient sea reptile that lived...

Apr 30, 2012 by Natali Anderson

A team of biologists from Penn State University has discovered 24 new species of lizards known as skinks, all from islands in the Caribbean. The Anguilla...

Apr 20, 2012 by Natali Anderson

A team of biologists from the Papua New Guinea National Museum and the U.S. Geological Survey has discovered a new species of slender-toed gecko on Manus...