What’s the most enigmatic human ancestor, that we probably know the least about? There’s a good chance it’s the Red Deer Cave people. Despite walking on Earth relatively recently – only ...

An ancient ancestor of the pathogen that would later cause the Black Death and other major pandemics has been identified in a Bronze Age domestic sheep in Russia – making it one of the oldest ...

The closest-living relatives of orcas are hippos, but a modern example of what their ancestor may have been like is the chevrotain, a small deer species that dives into water when threatened ...

The average weight of a female is about 155 lb (maximum, 218 lb). The range is from southern Canada to Panama except for parts of the western and southwestern U.S. The white-tailed deer was uncommon ...