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 ...

Researchers have identified a "tipping point" about 2.7 million years ago when global climate conditions switched from being ...

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 ...

A lightweight sports car produced by the British company AC Cars, complete with input from none other than Caroll Shelby, the Shelby AC Cobra is familiar to many car enthusiasts, including due to its ...

Illinois gets weird in the best way. From sandstone canyons to skyline views, these places stick with you long after the ...

Complete fossil skeletons of two ice age mammals — a woolly mammoth and woolly rhino — are being erected in the atrium of the state office complex Downtown at 400 W. Congress St. You can visit them ...