Eventually, some ancient Egyptians likely welcomed the cats home as adorable pet companions, they say. The domestication and spread of animals driven by cults is not uncommon. For instance, previous ...

Discover 5 amazing animals that shaped and lived alongside ancient civilizations. Each played a unique role in shaping early societies.

Every fossil find and genetic study tweaks what we think we know about the timeline or the circumstances under which ...

The private company Colossal Biosciences claims to have resurrected dire wolves through genetic editing. The resulting trio, ...

Animals and humans have always coexisted. Before cities, nomadic hunter-gatherers depended on animals for food, transport, ...

The Silklab at Tufts is a misnomer in a sense. While the lab is working with silk, a textile humans have been using for over ...

The dire wolf was one of the most formidable predators in the Americas during the last Ice Age, possessing a body more stout ...

Scientists working for Dallas-based biotech company Colossal Biosciences claim to have brought the dire wolf, which went ...

Startup Colossal Biosciences has edited the DNA of a gray wolf to produce what it says is a de-extincted animal. Does that make it a true dire wolf?

Our team took DNA from a 13,000 year old tooth and a 72,000 year old skull and made healthy dire wolf puppies,” said Colossal ...

Instead, the study team hypothesized, pastoralism was adopted via a process of cultural exchange, such as interaction with ...

Tiger: A tiger can bring down prey twice its size and lift up to 550 kg, which is double its body weight ...