Imagine a world where enormous woolly mammoths still roamed the frozen tundra, their long tusks sweeping through the snow as ...

“What we saw happen was an extreme heat wave where conditions surpassed the thresholds of survival of a whole, entire species ...

A new documentary puts viewers in the shoes of Neanderthals and early humans, giving an intimate glimpse into humans’ ...

When scientists sequenced the Neanderthal genome in 2010, they learned that Neanderthals interbred with human ancestors ...

Near the end of his reign, French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte led an army of over half a million men in an invasion of Russia ...

Spiders, whether you know it or not, are all around us, but what may alarm you is the truth about how much biomass these ...

This is part of what John Daley wrote to the surveyor general in the autumn of 1893. His “history” amounted to the story of ...

It never weighed more than a spoonful of sugar. Five or six grams of life, soft-furred and sharp-nosed, darting among the ...

Vampire deer belong to the order Artiodactyla alongside other even-toed ungulates like giraffes and camels, as well as whales ...

Regulations in the perfume industry could change the scent of cherry perfumes forever. Here, perfumers weigh in on what’s ...

Prominent research studies have suggested that our planet is currently experiencing another mass extinction, based on ...