If you’ve seen any of the “Ice Age” animated Disney movies, we have some bad news: You don’t know the real ice age. It was an ...

From woolly mammoths to giant sloths, via some lesser-known ice-age beasts like 'killer koalas', the visuals in this ...

Oh, to be human... Our brains are locked in fragile bone prisons, we've got bad eyesight, and we complain when we have a hangnail. We wouldn't have lasted a day in a world populated by these ...

In his answer to this question, Peter Bursztyn writes that he isn’t sure “how one could determine whether a wolf, an eland or a cheetah were short-sighted”. He says: “I can’t imagine devising ...

"Being able to recover RNA from ancient samples, in addition to DNA, is like opening a new window into the biology of extinct animals," study co-author Love Dalén, professor of evolutionary genetics ...

Whether carnivorous dinosaurs had lips has long been the stuff of paleo-debate. A new study finds evidence that flesh covered the predators’ teeth. Tyrannosaurus rex and other carnivorous dinosaurs ...