Patrick Pester

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.

If we continue on our current trajectory, the sixth mass extinction is inevitable and the times we're living through now will be part of that geological period.

Geneticists have critiqued a study suggesting extinct Javan tigers are still alive, but the search is just beginning.

There are many mysteries surrounding Europe's hunter-gatherers, but farming played a role in their demise.

The prize for the smallest animal goes to a group of microscopic species.

The longest-living animals can survive for centuries and millennia, even pausing the aging process altogether. Here are the longest-living animals in the world.

"What Wim Hof did is about the most dangerous thing you can do when you go into cold water."

Finland's river crystals hold clues about the formation of 'Scandinavia's' oldest bedrock 3.75 billion years ago.

Scientists believe toe-biting giant water bugs have arrived in Cyprus from the mainland, but they're not sure why or how.