An “unusually high number” of dead whale calves have washed up along Argentina’s Península Valdés. Preliminary records ...
On a bluff above Alaska's Tanana River, Ice Age families built a shelter around a hearth, slow-cooked meat in an earth oven ...
Archaeologists at Alaska’s 13,800-year-old Sheg Hdalti site found possible remains of the oldest dwelling in the Western ...
Cats may bring dead animals home because of natural hunting instincts, familiar surroundings, and learned behaviors, rather than deliberately offering gifts.
Some 165 million years ago, a predator that looked like a strange mishmash of a platypus and river otter roamed what’s now ...
Some small breeds live nearly twice as long as their much larger cousins. It’s one of the great paradoxes of the animal ...
Paleontologists found remains of the likely flightless Jurassic predator Yuezhuornis yangyuanensis in southeastern China. The ...
The Atacama Desert is a landscape where water is measured in millimetres, not rivers. Today, parts of this vast Chilean ...
A new study that tracked dogs' aging by reading tiny chemical tags on their DNA found that larger dogs aged more quickly.
The oldest known animal fossils are about 574 million years old, but the fossil record is too sparse to reveal when Earth’s ...
DNA samples from Jonathan the 194-year-old tortoise reveal gene variants and epigenetic changes that could contribute to his ...
Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a 3,000-year-old young male horse inside Egypt’s ancient Abqaa’ fortress, suggesting it may have been used to pull a chariot. Nearby harness fittings point ...