Around 800,000 to 900,000 years ago, a genetic bottleneck occurred, drastically reducing the human population. This event led ...

The name “lion” doesn’t only apply to the king of the jungle. Perhaps in a nod of deference, there are many animals that ...

Rice’s whale is the only baleen whale species that lives year round in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico in the continental ...

Dr. Julie Meachen, lead paleontologist and a professor at Des Moines University recently talked about Wyoming’s Natural Trap ...

M ammoth species in North America repeatedly interbred over thousands of years, creating hybrid offspring, a new fossil ...

Three million years ago, an extinct relative of today's great penguins—emperors and kings—lived in Aotearoa New Zealand.

One of the most intriguing and intricate mysteries in paleontology is the disappearance of North America's giant mammals, or ...

Columbian mammoths in Mexico are genetically different from those in the U.S. and Canada, surprise DNA study reveals.

Some cosmic events could have profoundly altered the lives of our ancient human relatives. Did Neanderthals go extinct, at least in part, due to changes in Earth’s magnetic field? Did Australopithecus ...

Humans have wiped out hundreds of species — with many more on the brink or experiencing large declines in population. Some scientists have argued that we have entered a “sixth mass extinction” event ...

Nicolás Rascován, a geneticist at the Pasteur Institute in France who was not involved with the research but did help ...