In the past twenty years, major technological advances in extracting and analyzing DNA have transformed the ability to ...

Bears look like textbook mammals, but hidden in their evolutionary history are two dramatic departures from the standard ...

International research and highly-specialized divers are bringing an underground, underwater world to the surface ...

A new study from Oxford University shows that humans and Neanderthals most likely kissed each other back in the distant past.

In the depths of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, a team of divers has uncovered extraordinary fossil remains from two ...

Sediment DNA also traces life outside the cave. Predators dragged prey into sheltered chambers, humans left waste behind. By ...

Hunters and farmers in Greece are demanding the right to cull wolves after one attacked a child on a beach this month, warning that the protected species is multiplying in the wild. The most gripping ...

Australian folklore warns of the “drop bear,” a legendary and savage version of the koala said to leap from trees onto unsuspecting tourists. Now, scientists have found that the myth may have roots in ...

This week, Svante Pääbo, Nobel Prize winner for sequencing the Neanderthal genome, is visiting Estonia. In an interview with ...

Discover the extraordinary prehistoric giants – from mega-sloths to monster sharks – that once made today’s animals look miniature.

The brown bear is going on temporary display in the National Museum of Ireland as part of an ongoing exhibition which ...