The research demonstrates the adaptability of basking sharks, which can tolerate vastly different ocean temperatures. While ...

Tom Hiddleston narrates series looking at prehistoric life, millions of years after the extinction of the dinosaurs.

Uncover the ancient history of Big Bone Lick State Park in Union, Kentucky. Learn how this fossil-rich salt lick became the ...

New fossil studies reveal that ancient predators like saber-toothed cats vanished rapidly after their primary prey species ...

A global study tracking nearly 13,000 individual marine animals has uncovered a sharp disconnect between where these animals actually spend their time and where marine protections exist. The ...

Ambitious projects aim to put dire wolves, woolly mammoths and passenger pigeons back into our ecosystems. But with so many ...

North America once hosted an impressive array of megafauna that would seem almost mythical to modern observers. From towering mammoths to predators that dwarfed today’s largest carnivores, these ...

If large creatures like elephants, giraffes and bison are allowed to thrive, they could alter habitats that allow for the ...

The Jurassic Games: Extinction takes an adventurous bite out of reality-television culture, but does so with choppy storytelling and not-quite-polished visuals.

Climate change and habitat loss could cause more than 500 bird species to go extinct in the next 100 years, researchers from the University of Reading have found.

A space physicist has suggested that a reversal of the Earth’s magnetic poles may have wiped out the Neanderthals.