Patrick Pester

Researchers using the Gaia space telescope studied some ancient stars near the sun, revealing that our corner of the Milky Way may be billions of years older than once thought.

A tiny extinct penguin from New Zealand is key to understanding penguin wing evolution, researchers say.

Researchers say they've discovered evidence for the recently proposed 'law of increasing functional information' by proving that minerals evolve as life does.

Researchers say they've recovered one of the world's oldest known dinosaurs after heavy rains exposed a Herrerasaurid skeleton in southern Brazil.

Researchers have laid out the case for complex life evolving 2.1 billion years ago, but not everyone is convinced it started so early.

The newly discovered Youti yuanshi larva fossil is so well-preserved that it provides a road map for arthropod evolution during the Cambrian period.

Researchers have traced cell origins critical to vertebrate evolution by studying a group of primitive, bloodsucking fish called lampreys.

It's hard to compare sports head-to-head, but some stand out in terms of their risk of causing injury or death.

Firefighters are battling a 'monster' wildfire in the evacuated town of Jasper and Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada.

Three fossilized snakes that died huddled together 38 million years ago are now called the "winter serpents."

A new simulation shows that an El Niño-like climate pattern begins near New Zealand and Australia, and can trigger temperature changes across the Southern Hemisphere.

Animals are disappearing too fast for researchers to record all of the extinctions we've caused.

Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the way scientists monitor wildlife and find new species, but how effective are these new systems?

Some humans have always stood head and shoulders above their peers, but there's nothing mythological about these real-life human giants.

A Western Pacific leatherback migrating from her nesting grounds in the Solomon Islands dove to a whopping 4,409 feet, conservationists say.

Researchers snapped a photo of a baby Irrawaddy dolphin in a group of Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins swimming off the coast of Cambodia.

The giant viruses might infect algae that are increasing Greenland's ice melt. These viruses could help kill off the damaging algal blooms, helping to reduce some of the impacts of climate change.

'Teen Rex' is about to go on display for the first time and appear in a new T. rex documentary, thanks to a discovery made by three young boys.

Wolf 907F recently gave birth to her 10th litter of pups, which researchers say is likely a Yellowstone National Park record.

Newly discovered dinosaur — the apex predator of its environment — had a weirdly flat skull compared to its contemporaries, along with ridiculously small arms.

Researchers have excavated over 300 bones from at least three mammoths in an Austrian wine cellar, potentially suggesting they were butchered by humans.

Militocodon lydae, a mammal that looked like a chinchilla but is more closely related cows, roamed what is now Colorado after the nonavian dinosaurs went extinct.

A giant-hail event that hit Girona in northwest Spain in 2022 was fueled by climate change, with a marine heatwave helping to intensify the storm that killed a small child.

Researchers discovered the remains of a huge dinosaur named Bustingorrytitan shiva last year and have now released artistic reconstructions of the Cretaceous giant.