Inside the growing scientific quest to understand what creatures with the extraordinary ability to defy the ravages of time can teach us about making human aging better.

An extinct relative of the howler monkey may have been the first leaf-eating primate in South and Central America ...

Discover the untold stories of Earth's mass extinctions through NBC's new series Surviving Earth, premiering June 4. Get a ...

It’s a bit like reading a very dense book – it’s small in size, but it’s full of information.” Paleoclimatologists like ...

The North Sea is home to the remains of a vast land that has been lost to time and is referred to as Doggerland, the area of ...

Neanderthals systematically boiled animal bones to extract fat and grease at an industrial scale 125,000 years ago, according to a new study that reframes long-standing assumptions about their dietary ...

Researchers say the remarkable discoveries were made using fossils, photos, and the knowledge of Indigenous communities. The ...

For the first time, scientists have used DNA preserved in ancient sediments to examine how a major natural disaster affected ...

Deep beneath the shifting sea ice of the Arctic Ocean, a massive marine mammal moves slowly through waters that remain near freezing for most of the year. The animal, known as the Bowhead Whale, can ...

When the asteroid ended the age of non-avian dinosaurs, it cleared ecological space on a global scale. Small survivors ...

This circuitous tale, that connects a massive bison bull across 140 years of American history, begins in 1886 when getting a ...

The Coyote Canyon Mammoth research dig site contains the remains of a Colombian mammoth, likely killed in an Ice Age flood approximately 17,000 years ago.