When researchers learned the fossils were merely 1,900 to 2,700 years old—which would be the youngest woolly mammoth fossils ...

And it was huge. The ancestor of today’s 20-foot great white shark was thought to be about 26 feet long, the authors of a ...

Drone footage captures the amazing scene of humpback whales looking for a snack and "lunging" for a school of fish off the coast of California ...

Dormant Bitcoin whales have become active. See what onchain data reveals about who holds BTC, how ownership is shifting and ...

In the heart of Egypt’s Western Desert, scientists have uncovered more than 400 fossilized skeletons of prehistoric whales.

From living paint to injecting rocks, scientists have bizarre carbon capture ideas that could help us tackle the climate ...

Fossil skulls reveal how extinct mammals smelled the world, with new research linking olfactory bulb size to gene counts.

Today, the Arabian Gulf is home to manatee-like marine mammals called dugongs that shape the seafloor as they graze on ...

Amongst the most enduring mythical creatures, which were present in so many ancient cultures, are the dragons. Appearing frequently in folklore and tales from China in the east to Europe in the west, ...

Researchers examining large vertebrae discovered near Darwin identified the creature as the earliest known mega-predator in the lineage of modern sharks, living some 15 million years earlier than ...