Massive tunnels have been discovered in South America, but what animal made them? Learn about the tunnels created by ...

New data shows Ice Age hunters used Mezhyrich’s mammoth-bone shelters briefly, highlighting adaptations in a volatile, frigid ...

A biologist explains the surprising evolutionary math behind how the blue whale became the largest animal that has ever lived ...

A team of researchers has identified an Ice Age relative of the muskox from fossils uncovered in Carlsbad Caverns National Park. The new species, named Speleotherium logani, was identified in a paper ...

Mammoth bones weren’t just leftovers from the hunt, they were the walls of survival in a freezing prehistoric world.

Festive favorites of the holiday season, reindeer possess remarkable genomic adaptations that allow them to thrive in the ...

Long after an animal’s soft tissues have vanished, its skull still carries a blueprint of how it sensed the world. For ...

By studying the natural world, scientists find blueprints for innovations that can improve human lives—in the genes of a ...

New research shows humans may have brought wolves to a remote island, fed them, and cared for them thousands of years ago.

Paleontologists have found fossilized remains of these deer at sites in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Nebraska, but evidence of ...

Historic population bottlenecks left cheetahs genetically similar, increasing disease risk and threatening long-term survival.

The Medina County Park District has a generous list of programs to encourage healthy activity during the month of January.