The contents of an ancient wolf pup's stomach yields surprising clues into the genetic lineage of extinct species.

This is Part 3 of a three-part series. Read Part 1 here and Part 2 here.The first wave of the “Sixth Extinction” outlined in ...

For a long time, scientists thought there was a hard limit to hopping. Go beyond a certain body weight, the logic went, and ...

This is part 1 of a three-part series that traces the origins of the Anthropocene - the current geological epoch that speaks bluntly to humanity's impact on the environment - and the unfolding 'Sixth ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, the first wave of a worldwide tsunami now known as the “Sixth Extinction” swept across the ...

The paper also said that giant kangaroos probably did not rely on jumping for every movement because that would have been inefficient for their large bodies.

Four million years ago, the landscape of Northern Greece was the territory of a huge snake, a true biological titan.

I visit an unassuming gorge where a wealth of ice age fossils was once found, telling us about Britain’s megafauna – and Neanderthals ...

The Pleistocene epoch, which ended roughly 11,700 years ago, hosted a range of outsized Australian animals, from massive ...

An overused phrase goes under the microscope Recently, while reading a draft of a story by another writer for High Country ...

Part of the collection will be housed locally in the Huasteco Regional Museum AC, located in Ciudad Valles, the Huasteca's ...

The secret is out: Man and gomphotheres once coexisted in Sonora. Tools and spear tips found with fossil bones at a remote Sonoran site suggest that Clovis-era hunters butchered two juvenile specimens ...