Earth looked much different not just millions, but even decades and centuries ago. Many animal species that once existed are ...

A fossil jaw of a distant human relative was discovered much farther north than previously thought possible, revealing new ...

An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown ...

Inside the stomach of an ancient wolf puppy found entombed in Siberian permafrost, scientists discovered meat from a woolly ...

Prototaxites are something of a prehistoric mystery. They were the first giant organisms on land, towering over ancient ...

While the average person may believe we’re losing species faster than we can discover new ones, that may not be the case. A ...

Researchers have found footprints of large, bone-crushing dogs in the 12 million-year-old Ashfall Fossil Beds in northeastern Nebraska, suggesting these large carnivores may have survived a ...

Conservationists in the Galapagos Islands have found a giant tortoise from a species thought to have become extinct more than a century ago. The adult female tortoise was found on the island of ...