Human lifespans have increased significantly over time, but that didn't actually occur until surprisingly recently. Even then ...

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Paleontologists from National Taiwan University recently discovered a single python vertebra dating back 400,000 to 800,000 ...

“Our findings challenge the prevailing view that tigers once took refuge in Japan and that cave lion distribution was limited ...

Paleoanthropologists Rachel Caspari and Sang-Hee Lee found that the ratio of older-to-younger adults among early modern ...

An Ice Age double burial in Italy has yielded a stunning genetic revelation. DNA from a mother and daughter who lived over 12,000 years ago shows that the younger had a rare inherited growth disorder, ...

A Brandon University paleontologist has helped identify prehistoric barf that’s nearly 290 million years old — and could be ...

Prehistoric Planet turned Bruneau Dunes State Park into an Ice Age stage, bringing mammoths and movie magic to the sands of Idaho.

Long before modern pigs rooted through forests and farmyards, their prehistoric relatives roamed ancient landscapes. And they looked far more fantastical while doing so. Some species sported ...

Canada had the U.S. outgunned, so the Americans went to Milan with a bunch of machetes.

A remarkably preserved 150-million-year-old shark fossil is forcing researchers to reconsider how modern sharks evolved. The species, Bavariscyllium, displays a mix of features that do not align with ...

There’s something beautiful about the moment a child experiences live performance for the first time — the lights, the sound, ...