Cameron Duke

Ancient mammals known as 'thunder beasts' grew 1,000 times bigger just 16 million years after the dino-killing asteroid struck.

An Asian elephant at the Berlin Zoo, Pang Pha, taught herself to peel bananas with her trunk by watching her keepers.

Famous 'jellyfish' fossil from 300 million years ago was upside-down the whole time. It's actually another animal entirely.

One of the largest ancient fish on record, known as Dunkleosteus, was actually half as long, but still super chunky, a new study finds.

During the Eocene, the Arctic was a warm, swampy place that these primates called home.

Echidnas use booger bubbles to stay cool in hot weather Down Under.

A perplexing mystery fish may have finally been placed on the evolutionary tree of life as an ancestor of all four-limbed animals, also known as tetrapods.

For millions of years, megalodon was the top predator in marine ecosystems. Then great whites came along and ruined everything.

Dinosaur metabolisms were diverse; some lineages were cold-blooded like their lizard cousins, while others were warm-blooded like their avian relatives alive today.

Scientists exploring the depths of Monterey Bay unexpectedly encountered a rare and unique species of dragonfish.

What's the largest arachnid ever on Earth? The answer is not so simple, say scientists.

A newly discovered species of freshwater shrimp called Koonwarrella peterorum may have reproduced asexually via parthenogenesis.

Injured trilobite fossils provide the oldest known evidence of cannibalism.

A weirdly bloated creature, whose head has been defleshed and body looks more like a swollen, discolored beast of myth than anything real, washed up on an Australian beach last week.

A massive Antarctic ice shelf that covered an area about the size of New York City or Rome just collapsed into the ocean.

Symmetry is so common in biology because life favors simple structures over complex ones.

The king cobra is not one species, but four independent ones, spread throughout the Asian tropics.

Pack hunting spiders use web vibrations to coordinate their attacks.

Pennsylvania officials spotted a worrisome concentration of ticks carrying a severe tick-borne disease in a single park. Is this an anomaly or part of a larger trend?

Goffin's cockatoos play golf in an experiment exploring their ability to combine multiple objects into one tool.

This Cretaceous-era cockroach was active during the day and has eyes to prove it.

A 'bomb cyclone' is expected to bring strong winds and dump inches of snow on the U.S. Northeast on Friday and Saturday.

An incredible video shows an African rock python swallowing an impala.

Scientists onboard an icebreaker in Antarctica were blown away when they spied a trove of 60 million icefish nests dotting the floor of the Weddell Sea.