Sloth size and habitat shifted multiple times over the past 35 million years, but human hunting likely drove the slower, ...

Researchers have recovered Homo erectus bones from the seafloor, which points to an unknown hominin population hunting on ...

A new study, published on May 21 in the journal Nature, has revealed surprising information about the origins of human teeth.

"Dire wolves" created by Colossal Biosciences were pegged as "the first animals in history to be brought back from extinction ...

Fossils discovered beneath the Madura Strait in Indonesia reveal a previously unknown population of Homo erectus inhabiting ...

Archaeologists have recovered 140,000-year-old Homo erectus bones from an extinct human species on the ocean floor in ...

Scientists have analyzed ancient DNA and compared more than 400 fossils from 17 natural history museums to figure out how and why extinct sloths got so big.

For each of these 60 species, the next severe tropical cyclone may be their last. A better understanding of the distribution and status of these species is only the beginning. Conservationists need to ...

Colossal uses gene editing to bring dire wolves back from extinction, marking a breakthrough in de-extinction science with the birth of Romulus and Remus.

The near-extinct northern white rhino could be revived following a "crucial" genome breakthrough. It is one of the rarest ...

In the last decade, report after report has warned that the Arctic is heating up faster than ever, cities are scorching, the ...