A mixture of anxiety and excitement coursed through Keanini Aarona in the weeks before five Hawaiian crows, or ʻalalā, were ...

Monotremes are unique mammals that lay eggs, but their limited geographic ranges make them vulnerable. We explain why.

Tucked away in the frozen soil of Siberia, a lion cub has reemerged after tens of thousands of years, its head still resting ...

A uniquely preserved ichthyosaur from the Pliensbachian period helps resolve when a major evolutionary shift occurred among Jurassic marine reptiles. A nearly complete skeleton discovered along the UK ...

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Megalodon sharks were among the largest and most formidable predators ever to exist, dominating the oceans millions of years ...

Thanks to genetic science, gene editing, and techniques like cloning, it’s now possible to move DNA through time, studying ...

The king cobra is the longest venomous snake alive today, but it is not the largest venomous snake to have ever existed.

This one-ton turtle once ruled South America’s rivers — until a changing planet proved too much for even the largest ...