Short ancient humans in Indonesia called Homo floresiensis disappeared possibly due to severe drought that gripped their ...

Researchers have dated vertebrae from a massive prehistoric shark thought to have ruled the waves off northern Australia back ...

You think you know Stonehenge. The iconic rock towers standing against a green field and a gray English sky are one of the most impressive sights in human history. But that’s just the tip of the ...

A giant marine predator, once believed to roam only the seas, may have also inhabited ancient rivers 66 million years ago.

In early December 2025, the CITES Conference of the Parties, made up of representatives from 184 countries, voted to initiate or expand protection against trade for many species. The votes included ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has once again spotted a distant exoplanet that I have exactly zero interest in ...

Fossils from Qatar have revealed a small, newly identified sea cow species that lived in the Arabian Gulf more than 20 ...

From extinction to rebirth, here’s a breakdown of how the takahē — one of Earth’s rarest birds — came back from an ...

Discover the extraordinary prehistoric giants – from mega-sloths to monster sharks – that once made today’s animals look ...

New research reveals a prehistoric shark 115 million years older than Megalodon, rewriting the timeline of shark ancestry.

Bringing down an elk, buffalo or musk ox, let alone a human, does not present much of a challenge. Luckily, they tend to ...

Photojournalist Ami Vitale followed Przewalski’s horses—once declared extinct in the wild—on a 2,000-mile journey back to ...