An international team has published research in Nature today that identified the oldest known mummified remains of an ...

Cases of flea-borne typhus have hit an “all-time high” in a California county, according to public health officials.

Painting of a straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) during the early temperate period of the Eemian interglacial, ...

Massive herbivores became scarce in the Middle East about 200,000 years ago, and this coincided with a shift towards smaller, ...

Ancient climate changes during the Ice Age still shape frog diversity across African rainforests, revealing hidden ...

The identity of a mysterious artifact found in Devon almost 160 years ago has finally been revealed. New research has ...

Thousands of years ago, an owl’s messy leftovers became prime real estate for some very determined bees. Deep inside a cave ...

Ice Age fossils discovered in an underwater cave in Texas reveal new details about prehistoric animals and ancient ...

Imagine a creature nearly twice the size of a modern African elephant, which can weigh up to 6,000 kg. This was Elephas ...

Pushing back the domestication timeline by 5,000 years via ancient DNA, a new study suggests that dogs lived with humans ...

A treasure trove of fossils from China shows that the Cambrian explosion may have been less explosive than scientists once ...

A University of Texas paleontologist has discovered fossils of prehistoric animals in a cave in Central Texas that have never ...