In 1978, residents in the small community of Winameg in rural northwest Ohio discovered several bones of a mammal dating back to the Ice Age: a mastodon. Bowling Green State University studied the ...

Ilha da Queimada Grande, Brazil's Snake Island, hosts the unique golden lancehead pit viper. This critically endangered ...

A stitch in time. Archaeologists have discovered 12,000-year-old animal hide scraps that could be humanity’s oldest known sewn clothing, per a primeval study in the journal Science Advances.

The pangolin is the only mammal on Earth covered in scales - living, flexible armor built from keratin. When threatened, it curls into a near-impenetrable ball, relying entirely on its biological ...

An illustration of Procoptodon goliah, a giant kangaroo that weighed up to about 550 pounds and went extinct around 40,000 years ago Nobu Tamura via Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY-3.0 For many people, ...

We know the main reason that the age of the dinosaurs came to an end: an asteroid impact on the Yucatán Peninsula some 66 million years ago. But how the dinosaurs’ reign began is far less clear—and ...

In A Nutshell Mars was erupting while T. rex roamed Earth: A Martian volcano system was active between 64 and 50 million years ago, overlapping with the age of dinosaurs and early mammals on our ...

Why did mammoths and other contemporary mammals disappear? Throughout its eventful existence, Earth has experienced five ...

As recently as 10,000 years ago, giant ground sloths the size of elephants, 20 feet long and weighing in at more than 6,000 pounds, roamed the southern United States and Central and South America.

February unlocks one of the best-kept secrets in Los Angeles. Crowds thin out, sunshine lingers, and the city opens up in ...

Researchers have shed new light on the features that enable tree-dwelling mammals to move effectively through their ...