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

If you’ve ever seen an elephant or a giraffe up close, you know those animals can seem massive, but would you believe that ...

Many animals have the need for speed – it is a matter of survival whether predator or prey. When it comes to speed, certain animal athletes consistently win the gold in the categories of fastest ...

The earliest humans emerged about 300,000 years ago. While many of Earth’s earliest life forms have long since gone extinct, some animals have stood the test of time–surviving through mass ...

identified structures in 890-million-year-old fossils of organisms similar to modern bath sponges, potentially pushing back the emergence of the animals to at least that long ago. The work “gives good ...

Scientists have discovered traces of life more than half-a-billion years old that could change the way we think about how all animals evolved on earth. The international team, including ...

including the fossilized remains of plants and animals buried when the sediments were formed. The Earth was already more than 600 million years old when life began. The planet had cooled down from ...