Overlooking the mountainous border between Austria and Italy, Weißseespitze is an alpine glacier. It formed as layers of snowfall gradually compacted into dense glacial ice, trapping airborne ...

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 ...

The comet formed in a cold and distant part of the early Milky Way up to 12 billion years ago, putting it just under 2 billion years the age of the universe.

For thousands of years, scientists knew of two tiny marsupials in New Guinea only through fossils and local legend. Researchers had long considered these species extinct. However, a team recently ...

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 ...

This circuitous tale, that connects a massive bison bull across 140 years of American history begins in 1886, when getting a message across Montana was a life-threatening task.

Scientists have a clearer picture of what Anglesey looked like 15,000 years ago thanks to analysis of Myfanwy the mammoth's fossil.

Not a theme park. Not a museum. Not even a fenced attraction. Just towering metal creatures standing exactly where the desert allows them. Dinosaurs pause mid-stride, mammoths loom against open sky, ...

Last November, the UK government announced a bold plan to phase out animal testing in some areas of research. Animal tests for skin irritation are scheduled for elimination this year, and some studies ...