If there were any contender for a real-life equivalent to the Oliphaunts of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, it would be ...

Yana is the most recent and, presumably, the oldest find among the six baby mammoths discovered earlier in the world, excluding fragmented remains. It is also the third baby mammoth found in Yakutia.

More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, new research has revealed.

A new temporary exhibit at the Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium takes visitors back in time to come face-to-face with incredible ...

Could the Woolly Mammoth and Tasmanian Tiger roam the Earth again? We take a look at how scientists are using genetic ...

As for the dodo, the Nicobar Pigeon is the closest living relative, and the Solitaire, a type of extinct bird that was found ...

Scientists created transgenic mice with woolly mammoth–like traits. But does it really bring us closer to bringing back woolly mammoths?

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

There's about three or four ankylosaurs that are preserved in a way that you could say are mummies,” Dr Susannah Maidment told IFLScience.

Scientists have performed a necropsy on a 50,000-year-old baby mammoth discovered in Siberia. The female mammoth, nicknamed ...

Stanford scientists found that dramatic climate changes after the Great Dying enabled a few marine species to spread globally ...