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

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 recent analysis hosted at the University of Arizona has researchers arguing ...

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 ...

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

But ancient New Zealand was home to an extinct species of great penguin around three million years ago, during a period in Earth's history known as the mid-Piacenzian Warming Period. (Image credit: CC ...

A tiny native shrub declared extinct has made a stunning comeback in far north Queensland - and it’s all thanks to a ...

In the past couple of decades, several species have been driven to extinction thanks, in large part, to human interference. Sometimes that interference is direct, poaching for big game trophies or ...

A fish species thought to be extinct has suddenly been found in a small pond in Bolivia. The rare seasonal killifish, Moema claudiae, has not been recorded in the wild for more than 20 years and its ...