Australian and New Zealand scientists have unearthed the remains of ancient wildlife in a cave near Waitomo on Aotearoa's ...

I n August 1939, just a few weeks before the outbreak of the Second World War, a scattering of ivory mammoth fragments was ...

Preserved by dry, cool air and darkness, the cheetah mummies are offering scientists DNA insights into a lost population and ...

A rare sample from a woolly rhinoceroses reveals how the population changed in the lead-up to the species’ extinction.

A piece of woolly rhinoceros flesh hidden inside a wolf that died 14,400 years ago has yielded genetic information that improves our understanding of why one of the most iconic megafauna species of th ...

Scientists have made a world-first discovery after extracting woolly rhinoceros DNA from the stomach of a wolf dating back to the Ice Age. The 14,400-year-old find offers rare insight into the final ...

Could we – that is, Homo sapiens – and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi more than 65,000 years ago? This is the ...

Back in 1999, the BBC’s Walking with Dinosaurs series spawned a new format: wildlife “documentaries” featuring long-extinct animals. I’m a big fan of this genre, and Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age, made ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - Riverbluff Cave is the oldest, fossil cave in all of North America and it’s located in the Ozarks. Geologist Matt Forir was one of the first humans to ever enter Riverbluff ...

New research published in the journal Cell reveals that scientists have managed to extract RNA, the molecule that translates genes into proteins, from the remains of a woolly mammoth that came from ...

Akin to a text message sent tens of thousands of years ago, scientists have successfully decoded genetic instructions that were actively running inside muscle cells inside a frozen woolly mammoth the ...