A new study suggests Neanderthals didn’t go extinct simply because of climate change or competition with Homo sapiens. Instead, the key difference may have been social connectivity—Homo sapiens formed ...

A fossilized millipede-like creature discovered in Scotland may represent the oldest-known land animal, a humble pioneer of terrestrial living 425 million years ago that helped pave the way for the ...

The giant kraken, a mythical marine beast, may not be entirely fiction. New evidence suggests that octopuses up to 62 feet ...

Conservationists say they have recorded several new adult and cub Asiatic cheetahs, a critically endangered subspecies found ...

A newly discovered prehistoric mammal may hold clues to how life survived the dinosaur-killing extinction. The tiny species, ...

A latest study utilizing advanced spatial modeling has revealed that neither climate change nor direct competition with early modern humans can fully explain the disappearance of Neanderthals from ...

Octopuses' earliest relatives may have been gigantic predators hunting during the age of dinosaurs, according to new Hokkaido ...

A new study shows that squids and cuttlefishes diverged about 100 million years after the asteroid collision remodeled ocean ...

Archaeological evidence of material exchange indicates that Neanderthals also possessed networks. However, relative to the ...

A newly identified 23-million-year-old "Arctic" rhinoceros fossil reveals that rhinos lived closer to the North Pole than ...

Researchers discovered evidence of enormous Kraken-like creatures who hunted in the seas some 100 million years ago, ...

Extinct cephalopods might have been up to 19 metres in length and probably dined high up the food chain in ancient oceans.