Colossal Biosciences' chief scientist has clarified that its "dire wolves" are just genetically modified gray wolves ...

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 ...

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

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

The heath hen once fluttered across the eastern U.S. in huge numbers. By the late 1800s, however, it had retreated to ...

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The snowy owl, Quebec's majestic avian emblem and Harry Potter's iconic companion, is at risk of becoming endangered if ...

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

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.