Scientists have sequenced the genome of the long-extinct woolly rhinoceros from remains found in the stomach of a naturally ...

Studying how ancient animals lived and why they died out can offer important insight to protecting species today.

A 14,400-year-old wolf puppy’s last meal is shedding light on the last days of one of the Ice Age’s most iconic megafauna ...

Paleoanthropologists have announced the world's most complete skeleton of Homo habilis, a human ancestor that lived more than ...

Australia’s iconic red landscapes have been home to Aboriginal culture and recorded in songlines for tens of thousands of ...

A genomic atlas of Nematostella vectensis reveals how primitive animals created multiple cell types millions of years ago, ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

Our bones did not begin deep inside the body. They started in the skin, not long after the first complex animals took shape.

Predator: Badlands has landed on digital platforms ahead of the February 4K Blu-ray release, but still no word on the Hulu ...

New Scientist writers and contributors have chosen their top science-y books, films, TV shows, music, video games and board ...

They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins ...

Deep beneath the frigid waters of Baffin Bay near Greenland, microscopic grains of alien dust have been discovered that provide startling new evidence for one of archaeology's most controversial ...