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.