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

An ancient species, the Yangtze giant softshell turtle, faces extinction with only two known wild survivors. Habitat loss, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

A discovery of ancient rocks might finally answer one of the biggest questions in science: how did the Moon form? Researchers ...