Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.

Long before big cats, terror birds reigned as apex predators. Here’s how these flightless birds hunted, and why they went ...

Once dismissed as sticks and forgotten in a museum, the 5,000-year-old tools show prehistoric people hunted whales far from ...

Scientists have successfully extracted the DNA of ancient mummified cheetahs discovered in a cave in Saudi Arabia. This is ...

Yinxu - known as the last capital of the Shang - is one of China’s most important archaeological sites, famous for oracle bone inscriptions and monumental burials. The new pits add another layer: not ...

Little is known about why the woolly rhinoceros went extinct around 14,000 years ago. Scientists have found clues in an unusual source: the frozen remains of an ice age wolf.

Arabian cheetah mummies' DNA reveals that the long-lost population could be closely replaced by a cheetah population in ...

The answer to how the woolly rhinoceros became extinct may have just been found in the stomach of one of its fiercest ...

New research indicates that humans shaped their environments through hunting and controlled use of fire tens of thousands of ...

In a conversation with Mahfuz Russel, renowned naturalist Nigel Alan Marven discusses the challenges and successes of wildlife conservation in one of the world’s most densely populated countries.

Crocodiles and alligators are usually the apex predators in whatever environment they live in. Their massive jaws and armored ...

These "total monsters of fishes" are extinct today, though new clues about their lives come from CT scans and their closest ...