AN animal that was believed to have been extinct has been rediscovered in the UK. Almost 80 years since it was last spotted, ...

Unique creatures, odd animals and new species are being discovered across the planet. Some are found lurking in remote ...

Imagine a sloth. You probably picture a medium-sized, tree-dwelling creature hanging from a branch. Today's sloths—commonly ...

The medical use of horseshoe crabs highlights the dilemma between human safety, environmental sustainability, and scientific ...

The animal kingdom is full of a variety of animals living on land, in water bodies, and the sky. But millions of years ago, ...

A tusk from a woolly mammoth, estimated to be 10,000 years old, has gone on display. The tusk originated from somewhere ...

By far the largest ever found of its kind, the spiny fossil predator "would have made enough scampi to feed an army," one ...

Imagine Europe tens of thousands of years ago: dense forests, large herds of elephants, bison and aurochs—and small groups of ...

Researchers have unearthed a spooky pair of dinosaur mummies that seem to have been preserved in an unexpected way ...

New research reveals that early humans changed Europe’s landscapes long before farming began, using fire and hunting to alter ecosystems.

It’s also the first pterosaur ever found in Syria. Pterosaurs were large dinosaur relatives that were the first vertebrate species to evolve to have the ability of active flight, a trait we see now in ...