New research reveals mammals were abandoning trees millions of years before the asteroid hit changing everything we know ...

Fifty thousand years ago, North America was home to towering giants. Mammoths roamed the tundra, saber-toothed cats hunted in ...

Published in Science Advances, the study found that many species do not stick to a single daily rhythm, contradicting decades of scientific assumptions. These findings reveal the flexibility of ...

In 1938, zoologist Ellis Le Geyt Troughton mourned that Australia's "gentle and specialized creatures" were "unable to cope ...

The idea that extreme heat could one day cause a mass extinction and end the dominance of humans is not as farfetched as it ...

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Fossilized footprints and tracks dating back 50 million years ago discovered at the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument could provide new insight into how prehistoric animals lived in Oregon. The ...

It is very difficult to know exactly the history of the Earth. For millions of years, the planet was inhabited by species ...