Deep below the surface of a river in northern Brazil, a “shy” creature tucked its “armored” body into a rocky crevice. Divers ...

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

Loggers are scaring away the animals ... on fossil teeth and stone tools, which suggests humans may have been eating grains, as well as tubers, for at least 100,000 years—long enough to have ...

Now imagine they’re two feet long and 20 pound heavy, that’s the kind of rodent that is currently invading California. This creature called Nutria, which additionally has orange teeth, is causing ...

The common house mouse (Mus musculus) is one of the most familiar animals on the ... round ears and long whiskers. They’re excellent climbers, and though they may not seem fierce, they come equipped ...

Researchers say they are one step closer to tooth regeneration in humans thanks to new developments in growing bioengineered ...

For the past two decades, scientists have been manipulating genes to grow human cells where you wouldn’t quite expect them.

Sharks have ruled the Earth’s oceans for 400 million years and recent research on fossilized shark teeth has led to the ...

On Thursday, the Aquarium of the Pacific released its first Marine Species Report Card, detailing the population trends of 30 ...

Write a piece of flash fiction each day of February with the February Flash Fiction Challenge, led by Managing Editor . Each ...

Similarly, most living things produce records of their own existence in layered body tissues – often in the form of daily or ...