Researchers have discovered a new genus and species of prehistoric mole in Spain. Vulcanoscaptor ninoti lived during the ...

The natural world is full of wonders that often seem to defy belief. Some creatures are so extraordinary, they look as if ...

Virginia opossums are the only marsupial species in North America.

Archaeologists found 115,000-year-old human footprints where they shouldn't be—and they just might rewrite the history of human migration.

Echidnas are quill-covered mammals that are native to Australia and New Guinea. They lay eggs like their platypus cousins, and they have spines like porcupines, but they're a unique species all their ...

If large creatures like elephants, giraffes and bison are allowed to thrive, they could alter habitats that allow for the ...

The Entelodont, the largest prehistoric pig to inhabit North America in the Eocene Period, could grow up to the size of a ...

Over billions of years, the drive to survive, reproduce, and outcompete rivals has pushed plants and animals to incredible ...

In the long history of life on Earth, one of the biggest turning points came when our distant ancestors stood tall—literally.

Move over, caveman clichés; Neanderthals weren’t just club-wielding hunters. New research reveals that they were culinary ...

A 247-million-year-old fossil reptile boasted an enormous crest on its back made from feather-like appendages, long before ...