For nearly 30 million years, a 2,000-pound beast known as the entelodont ruled a sweeping empire from Mongolia to what is now ...

Around 50,000 years ago, North America was home to a diverse array of megafauna. Mammoths roamed the tundra, while towering ...

More than 99% of all living species have gone extinct. Whole time periods are buried in layers ... via Wikimedia Commons Woolly rhinos roamed the Ice Age, also known as the Pleistocene epoch, which ...

For decades, scientists have wondered at the taxonomy of Vegavis iaai— an ancient avian specimen that lived in what is now ...

Researchers in Poland have found more evidence of violent cannibalism in the wake of the coldest period of the last Ice Age.

Similarly, most living things produce records of their own existence in layered body tissues – often in the form of daily or ...

16, 2025 — Previous studies have posited that the mass extinction that wiped the dinosaurs ... Speleothem and Ice Cores: Natural Climate Archives Offer New Insights Into the Climate History ...

Dec. 20, 2024 — Investigations into precipitation patterns in eastern Central Europe since the end of the last ice age have shown that dynamic processes in atmospheric circulation, such as the ...

Coelacanth: Once though to be extinct for 66 million years, this ancient fish was rediscovered off the coast of South Africa in 1938. It currently has a population of less than 1,000.

These distinctive hot-pink slugs are found only on an extinct volcano called Mount Kaputar ... defence mechanism that warns predators that an animal or plant is unappetizing or toxic.

This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. A naked mole rat. That was photographer Joel Sartore’s first model in 2006 when he began making studio portraits of ...

Science. NASA raises the alert: new calculations place the Bernabeu-sized meteorite closer to Earth Science. Science speaks: What would happen if an asteroid hit the Earth? Despite making up more ...