The caramel-colored skull of an ancient cave bear is believed to be at least 60,000 years old, and it’s up for auction in Anchorage.

Even though humans are the only remaining hominin species on the planet, our family tree is actually more complicated than ...

The skeleton of an extinct cave bear is to be sold in Tennants Auctioneers’ natural history and taxidermy sale next month. Dating from the late Pleistocene era, the species went extinct around 24,000 ...

Reindeer herders in Siberia were stunned to discover a mummified Ice Age cave bear — with all of its organs intact. The ...

This small, possibly extinct marsupial from the inhospitable Sturt Stony Desert may have had a solid skull built for hard biting. But not enough to bite through the kinds of foods biologists used ...

A conservation project in the East of England that has helped increase the population of one of the country's most threatened birds is marking its 40th anniversary. In 1985 the number of breeding ...

Credit: Mr J Sun (CC BY 4.0) Fossil evidence from North China indicates that certain ecosystems may have rebounded within just two million years after the end-Permian mass extinction, significantly ...

Genetically modified chickens could be the key to protecting endangered species and bringing back extinct ones, scientists say. Researchers in the US plan to replace sections of DNA in chick ...

Police are investigating criminal damage to a vehicle. It happened on Sunday in Hambleton Road, Catterick Garrison. A spokesperson for the force said: “Do you have any information which would assist ...

In a rare find, a team of scientists in Egypt uncovered a nearly complete skull that offers insight into a not-before-discovered apex predator species that lived 30 million years ago. Published on ...

A superheated supercontinent could push mammals, including humans, to extinction. The world could become uninhabitable, with unbearable heat and volcanic activity. The University of Bristol led ...