When climbing a tree, a snake thinks “safety first,” according to new research published Tuesday in Biology Letters. Instead of gripping the tree with just enough force to keep from sliding back down, ...

A new study describes a “semiarboreal kangaroo” that lived 40,000 years ago in Australia. Apparently, even hopping can get boring. According to the study, published this week in Royal Society Open ...

In one of the early scenes of Jurassic Park, the fictional paleontologist Alan Grant terrorizes a child visiting his dig site with a Deinonychus claw. If the dinosaurs were still alive they would have ...