Almost a hundred new animal species that survived a mass extinction event half a billion years ago have been discovered in a ...

Scientists studying an amber collection from the Goethe National Museum in the German town of Weimar have made a remarkable ...

AN EXTINCT creature has been found trapped into amber after nearly 40 million years. The doomed animal – which came from a legendary poet’s private collection – is so perfectly preserved ...

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

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

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

Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History investigated old specimens that had been at the museum for decades and ...

The findings, published in the journal Genome Biology and Evolution, show that woolly rhinos remained "genetically healthy" until the end of the last Ice Age. Scientists say the species therefore ...

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