The last two decades have seen a revolution in scientists' ability to reconstruct the past. This has been made possible ...

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 ...

An ancient romance -- between unlikely lovers. The post Scientists Find Evidence That Humans Made Out With Non-Human Creatures appeared first on Futurism.

The marsupial lion, which vanished around 40,000 years ago, was a muscular ambush predator about the size of a modern lion.

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

In the depths of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, a team of divers has uncovered extraordinary fossil remains from two long-extinct Ice Age species: the short-faced bear (Arctotherium wingei) and the ...

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 ...

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

The nature documentary series uses new research and photorealistic CGI to bring the huge, bizarre animals of the Ice Age back ...