The Salawusu site in Ordos, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Photo: IC. Featuring more than 400 animal fossils, a new ...

When reindeer herders in Siberia spotted a small snout protruding from thawing ground, they were not expecting to uncover a 14,000‑year‑old puppy so intact that its whiskers, eyelashes, and even the ...

The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, is the northernmost rhino known to have ever walked the planet — and it’s already reshaping scientists’ understanding of ...

Pigs, rats, cats and mongooses, all brought to the island decades earlier by humans, were to blame for their demise, preying ...

Ice Age,” a five-part series that brings the Pleistocene era to life with stunning visuals. The series, narrated by Tom ...

The nature documentary series uses new research and photorealistic CGI to bring the huge, bizarre animals of the Ice Age back ...

Scientists have recovered the oldest-known RNA, a molecule necessary for most biological functions, from a wooly mammoth that inhabited Siberia about 39,000 years ago, showing it can last longer than ...

When researchers learned the fossils were merely 1,900 to 2,700 years old—which would be the youngest woolly mammoth fossils ...

A 14,000-year-old mummified puppy discovered in Siberia contained the unexpected remains of a woolly rhinoceros in its stomach. Researchers now believe the young carnivore consumed part of one of the ...

CRAWLING ON YOUR FRONT OR BACK PORCH. WE’RE TALKING ABOUT THE WOOLY BEAR CATERPILLAR. DEFINITELY HAVE SEEN THEM. RUMOR HAS IT THAT THESE CATERPILLARS MAY HAVE SOMETHING UP THEIR SLEEVES IN TERMS OF ...

A 23-million-year-old rhinoceros fossil is reshaping scientists' understanding of mammal evolution. Researchers from the Canadian Museum of Nature (CMN) have identified a new species of rhino that ...