The animals that plummeted 85 feet into Wyoming’s Natural Trap Cave provide a layered history of life dating back to the ...

In just the last several months, de-extinction—bringing back extinct species by recreating them or organisms that resemble ...

Woolly mammoths have become the poster child for de-extinction. The giant land mammals have long held our intrigue and ...

Natural Trap Cave is a pit in northern Wyoming into which countless animals have fallen and met their untimely demise since the Pleistocene. Paleontologists today find the cave a treasure trove ...

In late June, a Grand Canyon National Park concessions employee contracted hantavirus, a rare but often fatal rodent-borne ...

Discover the fascinating story of the woolly mammoth, an Ice Age giant. Learn about its features, habitat, extinction, and efforts to bring it back through science.

This unique shrimp species is endemic to the caves of Kentucky, including Mammoth Cave. It is nearly blind and has adapted to the cave environment over time. Another bat species found in the park, the ...

In this new series, Human, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human ...

The mammoth tusk boomerang from a cave in Poland represented the artistic abilities of our ancestors in producing symbolic ...

Previously thought to be early domesticated dogs or tamed wolves living near humans, the animals’ remains were found near woolly mammoth bones that had been ... come from a wolf population that did ...