In a quiet part of what is now South Australia, more than half a billion years ago, life was locked in battle. The ocean ...

Focused on Cambrian fossils, the study reanimates a species long trapped in the pages of forgotten paleontology.

The story of primates is a tale of incredible variety and ancient roots, told through the lens of science, DNA, and time ...

Colossal Biosciences' claim to have brought dire wolves back from extinction has drawn both praise and skepticism.

A groundbreaking study led by Bar-Ilan University reveals that starch-rich plants played a central role in the diet of ancient hunter-gatherers. A new archaeological study along the Jordan River, just ...

“Seeing Lucy’s face is like glimpsing a bridge to the distant past, offering a visual connection to human evolution,” Brazil’s Cicero Moraes, a pioneer in the field of forensic facial reconstructions, ...

Read about the Jurassic extinction event that wiped out many species at the beginning of this Period and led to the rise of ...

Genetic analysis reveals that dire wolves are not gray wolves’ ancestors but a separate species, reshaping evolutionary ...

Shrimp look an awful lot like bugs. The exoskeletons, jointed legs and compound eyes of both groups of living things give ...

Three Dire Wolf pups, a species made famous by the Game of Thrones series, were born using a gene editing technique carried out by the startup Colossal Biosciences. Find out how this happened ...

Colossal Biosciences says gene-editing technology helped it essentially bring back extinct dire wolves famously seen in Game of Thrones: Their work attracted a range of supporters, including celebriti ...

A prehistoric floodplain in Wyoming has revealed a mass grave of giant amphibians, frozen in time for 230 million years.