Ancient myths claim Stonehenge was built by giants or lost civilizations, but experimental archaeology suggests human ...

These ancient species are living proof of nature’s endurance. It’s a hands-on adventure chasing the true prehistoric survivors still swimming today.

Hidden deep in ancient rocks, scientists have found the surviving traces of Earth’s first form—unchanged for 4.5 billion years.

A team of astrophysicists has unveiled how colossal stars thousands of times more massive than the Sun shaped the earliest ...

P. antiquus grew as large as 13 feet tall at the shoulder and weighed over 29,000 pounds. At a fossil site in Rome, Italy paleontologists uncovered a set of straight-tusked elephant remains dating ...

Astronomers have long puzzled over how the oldest and most mysterious star clusters in the universe—known as globular ...

Imagine a sloth. You probably picture a medium-sized, tree-dwelling creature hanging from a branch. Today's sloths—commonly featured on children's backpacks, stationery and lunch boxes—are slow-moving ...

Ancient sea creatures may have used magnetic particles to navigate. 3D scans reveal how these magnetofossils sensed Earth’s ...

A 6‑million‑year‑old fossil has revealed a new giant bear species in Russia, helping scientists better understand prehistoric ...

A worn-down mammoth tooth discovered nearly 150 years ago on an island in Nunavut offers new insights into where and how the ...