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

The museum underwent hardship in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and the high operational costs led the city to consider ...

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 ...

A fossil cache discovery, that brought back to life, unique creatures that most can only dream about ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Forests were growing on the now-submerged landmass of Doggerland thousands of years earlier than previously believed, ...

Ancient DNA preserved in seabed sediments suggests Doggerland hosted temperate forests far earlier than expected.

Humans have contended with crocodiles for a really long time. The recent discovery of an ancient crocodilian species sporting a strange snout indicates the reptiles may have even preyed on our ...