It’s already baffling how many incredible and strange creatures can be found on planet Earth, with there being well over 8 ...

A new study highlights how life possibly evolved prior to and during the rise of Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere.

A new look at fossils from the Cambrian Period around 500 million years ago has revealed that some of the earliest animals spent time on mudflats that were sometimes exposed to the air – a find that c ...

Roughly half a million years ago, a group of armadillo-like mammals, horses, and sloths met their end in a sinkhole in what ...

KRASNOYARSK, February 13. /TASS/. The musk ox population on the Taymyr Peninsula in the Krasnoyarsk Region's north is 7 or 8 thousand, not 13-15 thousand animals, as specialists assumed earlier, ...

By 1600 b.c., less than one in 20 bones found at sites in the Levant typically come from pigs, and most of those appear to be ...

Around 50,000 years ago, North America was home to a diverse array of megafauna. Mammoths roamed the tundra, while towering ...

According to the experts, humans will look a lot more uniform in the future. They predict the average person will have darker ...

In this extract from the documentary Persians: A History of Iran, we look at the Ziggurat of Chogha Zanbil - a man-made mountain palace created 3,000 years ago by the Elamites in Iran. Watch the ...

The site near Prince Albert, Sask., suggests Indigenous people lived in the region about 1,000 years earlier than previously thought.

In 2013, the ocean quahog clam set a Guinness World Record for its confirmed age of 507 years, making it the oldest known non-colonial animal. Tuataras can live up to 100 years and are the last ...

Those things may not have seemed possible 10 years ago when doctors gave Speidel a worrying prognosis following his car accident near Taylorsville that left him with a fractured skull, broken jaw ...