The contents of an ancient wolf pup's stomach yields surprising clues into the genetic lineage of extinct species.

A new study has provided fresh insights into how animals such as the woolly mammoth, musk ox and arctic fox evolved to survive the cold during the ice age. A team of palaeontologists and ...

Hundreds of millions of Americans are presently besieged by a massive arctic blast and winter storm. Luckily for them, it ...

The findings, published in the journal Genome Biology and Evolution, show that woolly rhinos remained "genetically healthy" ...

An Italian study reveals that ancient DNA from Western Hunter-Gatherers, who survived the Ice Age, is more prevalent in centenarians. These genetic variants, linked to immune strength and stress ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Researchers in Poland have found more evidence of violent cannibalism in the wake of the coldest period of the last Ice Age. Reading time 2 minutes In the 19th century, archaeologists in Poland ...

Koalas with the bodies of lions. Elephants the size of your dog. Gigantic, 8-foot-tall sloths. These aren’t creatures found in science fiction: They walked our planet a million years ago, during the ...

The return of humans to the British Isles after the end of the last ice sheet, which covered much of the northern hemisphere, ...

Every season, scientists from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) go on field trips to the Pyrenees. Their mission: gather snapdragon flowers to understand their genetic makeup.