Andean condors are the biggest raptors in the world — and are vital to their ecosystem ...
As if Neanderthals weren’t already mysterious enough, groundbreaking research adds a startling new layer to our understanding ...
The strategy is the mysterious reason why beluga whales have such a diverse genetic population despite being an isolated ...
DNA recovered from a wolf frozen in permafrost has helped researchers solve a 14,400 year-old woolly rhino extinction mystery ...
A wolf puppy's frozen stomach contents have upended theories on the woolly rhinoceros extinction, revealing a genetically ...
Researchers studying exquisitely preserved Scottish fossils say Prototaxites represents an entirely extinct eukaryotic lineage - a “new form of life” in the sense that it does not fit into known major ...
An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown ...
NEW YORK — Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back to at least 67,800 years ago. The tan-colored prints analyzed by ...
Prototaxites are something of a prehistoric mystery. They were the first giant organisms on land, towering over ancient ...
An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...
A MAJOR mystery surrounding Stonehenge’s origin has finally been solved. For centuries there have been all sorts of theories about how the giant rocks got there, from medieval myths linking ...