A latest study utilizing advanced spatial modeling has revealed that neither climate change nor direct competition with early modern humans can fully explain the disappearance of Neanderthals from ...

The bird is of cultural significance to the Māori people of New Zealand, and its numbers are starting to increase again.

Colossal Biosciences made a record-breaking 20 edits across 14 genes in gray wolf cells by adding extinct dire wolf DNA. This was the first time ancient DNA has been used to bioengineer an extinct ...

Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon. Not all species that have been classified as ...

Evolution usually helps a species survive. But sometimes, a trait that once made perfect sense ends up causing real trouble. Some animals adapted so well to their original environments that when ...

Oh, to be human... Our brains are locked in fragile bone prisons, we've got bad eyesight, and we complain when we have a ...

Maryland became the first state to designate an official shark on April 14, 2026, naming the extinct Otodus megalodon whose ...

A massive eruption 74,000 years ago shook the planet, and archaeologists are using volcanic glass to figure out how humans made it through. Reading time 5 minutes If you were lucky 74,000 years ago, ...

BEIJING (CNN/CNN Newsource/WKRC) — The "Dragon Man" skull may help unravel an evolutionary mystery, according to researchers. A fossilized skull, unearthed from the depths of a well in China's Black ...

The re-examination of an Ice Age fossil that has spent the last 120 years in the bowels of a museum has filled a major ...