Forests were growing on the now-submerged landmass of Doggerland thousands of years earlier than previously believed, ...

For the first time, scientists have used DNA preserved in ancient sediments to examine how a major natural disaster affected ...

A prehistoric discovery in northwest Missouri may be one of the rarest finds in the Midwest; a local paleontologist uncovered ...

In the age of endless scrolling, these clips seem almost ordinary. A penguin walking away from its colony across the Antarctic ice. A baby monkey clut.

When the asteroid ended the age of non-avian dinosaurs, it cleared ecological space on a global scale. Small survivors ...

It looks unstoppable - two tons of muscle wrapped in armor, carrying one of the most powerful natural weapons ever evolved. For millions of years, the rhinoceros dominated through sheer force, ...

During the Ice Age a massive hyena known as Pachycrocuta roamed across parts of Europe Asia and Africa Its unusually powerful jaws have led some researchers to describe it as a "bone crushing speciali ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A piece of sewn animal hide found in an Eastern Oregon cave may be one of the oldest known pieces of sewn clothing, dating back to the late Ice Age, archaeologists say. In a ...

Researchers came across a tiny long-fingered possum and a ring-tailed glider living in the rainforest in the Indonesian province of West Papua. Find out more here.

Researchers at the Museo Nacional de Costa Rica have confirmed a major paleontological find in the province of Cartago: fossil remains from a mastodon-like creature and a giant ground sloth. This ...

This circuitous tale, that connects a massive bison bull across 140 years of American history, begins in 1886 when getting a ...

This circuitous tale, that connects a massive bison bull across 140 years of American history begins in 1886, when getting a message across Montana was a life-threatening task.