For nearly 30 million years, a 2,000-pound beast known as the entelodont ruled a sweeping empire from Mongolia to what is now ...

A dawn redwood planted in 1954 stands about 86 feet tall and 3.9 feet in diameter at Michigan State University's Beal ...

With their pristine fur and dark almond eyes, arctic foxes are possibly one of the most beautiful mammals to have lived in ...

A forgotten fossil in a German museum turned out to be a rare Diatryma skull. Scientists corrected a decades-old ...

Amazon Rainforest Inhabitants Lived Alongside Ice Age Creatures, Researchers Find Rock Paintings of Now-Extinct Animals In ...

Colossal Biosciences is now valued at over $10 billion and is working on ambitious projects to resurrect multiple long ...

Jan. 23, 2025 — 130 years after a fungus-eating plant received its name, a researcher has uncovered the purpose of the structure that inspired its name -- revealing a novel mechanism by which ...

South American megafauna, from giant sloths to camel-like creatures, survived thousands of years longer than we thought, ...

Rosamond Purcell (b. 1942) is a Boston-based photographer and writer whose domains are the palimpsest melding of past, ...

Two features unite them: a generally large body size and being extinct. By 40,000 years ago, 90% of large species in Australia had died out. This included giant flightless birds, the rhino-sized ...

The giant animal disappeared from the wild in ... Colossal plans to recreate these creatures by editing the genome of the extinct animal’s closest living relative to make a hybrid animal that ...