Giant tortoises are some of the long-lived species on the planet. Here’s what biologists now understand about one of nature’s ...

Scientists have sequenced RNA from a nearly 40,000-year-old woolly mammoth leg, the oldest ancient RNA ever recovered. These ...

Found near the Sea of Galilee, a figurine depicting a crouching woman and a goose is now hailed as the earliest known representation of human-animal interaction. This incredible find pushes back the ...

For a long time, no one thought much of the low rise in the landscape of southeastern Mexico. It looked like nothing more than a gentle swell in the earth, one more bump in a flat, humid plain. Only ...

The oldest gray seal "living in human care" has died aged 51. Sheba has lived at the Cornish Seal Sanctuary for the majority of her life since founder Ken Jones rescued her as an injured pup back in ...