Scientists created transgenic mice with woolly mammoth–like traits. But does it really bring us closer to bringing back woolly mammoths?

They show the gritty side of dinosaur life,” Lacovara said. “Dinosaurs were authentic beings that lived under their own ...

Animal trackers using traditional skills helped to find and identify fossil tracks on the coast of South Africa.

Prototaxites, the first giant organism to live on land, have long been thought to have been some sort of plant, fungus or algae. Now, a new research paper ...

Farmers and zoologists in Australia have been thrilled by the discovery of a rare snake species population. The critically ...

Scientists uncover Ledumahadi mafube, a massive 26,000-pound dinosaur, shedding new light on evolution and prehistoric Earth.

The Partula tohiveana snail has been reclassified as critically endangered by the IUCN Red List after being previously ...

The Arctic fox was in danger of becoming extinct in Norway — but thanks to conservation efforts, the species now has a much ...

I recently went looking for one of the rarest of Texas’s rare plants in what seemed like an odd place: near the middle of ...

An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown ...

After 32 years away, Anthony Hingle Jr. is back in town, continuing the work of his father, Flagboy Meathead, a legend among ...

Paleontologists unearthed a fully preserved claw fossil. The prehistoric remains were found in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert. A ...