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 ...

Growth marks in bones indicate the age of some animals. But a new study leaves researchers questioning this method for dinosaurs.

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

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.

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.

Amateur paleontologist Jason Howery discovered the 92-pound femur of an Ice Age mammoth in a lake in Nodaway County, Missouri.

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

For the second time in about 24 hours, law enforcement helped rescue an injured bald eagle − this time one stuck floating on a chunk of broken ice in New York's Hudson River. The save, made by New ...

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 ...