We can study animals from all over the world thanks to science, but what about those that no longer exist? The list of extinct mammals could go on for ages, but each animal has a unique story. With ...

Steven Spielberg's 1993 blockbuster "Jurassic Park" made dinosaurs hot again, tens of millions of years after they were wiped off the face of the planet. That popularity has never really waned, as new ...

The history of the Earth spans about 4.5 billion years, during which countless creatures have appeared and gone extinct thanks to evolution. The only evidence we have that they existed is their ...

The curious minds at What If explore the top five extinct creatures still imagined today, revealing how their legacies continue to inspire fear and fascination.

WASHINGTON, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Researchers have sequenced the gene map of a long-extinct, mummified woolly mammoth, using DNA taken from its hair. Sign up here. The sequence shows that mammoths were ...

"From the frozen tundra of Siberia to the cutting-edge genetics labs of Harvard University, a group of young scientists--under the guidance of Dr. George Church, the most brilliant geneticist of our ...

Scientists discovered 200-year-old rock art in South Africa depicting a tusked creature, possibly linked to the ancient horned serpent of San legend. The painting, dated before the first scientific ...