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, ...

A crowd-sourced search for alien intelligence called SETI@Home is in its final stages, analyzing 100 radio signals of ...

Viruses that infect bacteria can still do their job in microgravity, but space changes the rules of the fight.

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.

Over the past half century, researchers have established that birds evolved from dinosaurs: specifically, the theropods, the ...

Born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, in 1935, von Däniken rose to prominence when he published Chariots of the Gods? while working as a hotel manager in Davos. The book posed a provocative question that ...