You may be familiar with animal hybrids like the mule—a cross between a female horse and male donkey—or a liger—the enormous offspring of...

Of all the continents on the surface of the planet, none is perhaps as mysterious and beautiful as Antarctica. Since time immemorial, the...

The spear points were unearthed at a site in Texas and are around 15,500 years old, which pre-dates the earliest known settlers on the...

The Earth has gone through five mass extinctions, and is now experiencing its sixth. The causes of our current event are pretty obvious,...

The discovery of countless rock carvings believed to be tens of thousands of years old in India has caused excitement among...

The oldest plant ever to be “resurrected” has been grown from 32,000-year-old seeds, beating the previous record holder by some 30,000...

Last year, scientists found a 42,000-year-old Lena Horse foal — those are extinct, by the way — frozen in Siberian permafrost. Now, they...

Old Tjikko (Sweden)c . . . The world’s oldest known living tree sprouted sometime during the last Ice Age, roughly 9,550 years ago. This...

In 2014, when Ian Miller and Tyler Lyson first visited Corral Bluffs, a fossil site 100 kilometers south of the Denver Museum of Nature &...

In Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park novel, scientists extracted blood-sucking insects from amber, removed the dinosaur blood from their...

The resting place of ancient armadillos that roamed the earth some 20,000 years ago has been discovered in Argentina. A farmer stumbled...

Around 2.2 billion years ago, a massive space rock collided against our planet leaving a massive scar. Around 200 million years older...

For hundreds (maybe thousands) of years, generations of the Heiltsuk Nation, an indigenous group in British Columbia, have passed down...

Founded in the 3rd millennium B.C., Damascus was an important cultural and commercial centre, by virtue of its geographical position at...

In 2011, Chilean scientists discovered a football-sized fossil off the coast of Seymour Island, near the northern tip of the Antarctic...

The Postojna Cave in Slovenia, a karst cave formed from drops of water eroding rock over millions of years, has been harboring a secret...

Ancient bow-and-arrow technology dating back some 48,000 years has been discovered in a Sri Lankan cave, making it the oldest evidence of...

A tiny carving of a bird, found in a discarded pile of soil, has now been declared the oldest work of art ever found in China. The figure...

When a team of biologists melted some Siberian permafrost to look for microbes, an ancient survivor waved hello. On University of...

Located in the city of Jericho in the West Bank, we find another bewildering structure, a wall that is arguably the oldest defensive wall...