Learn about Dunkleosteus, an ancient apex predator that ripped apart large fish with sharp bony blades that lined its mouth.

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In most narratives, the story of evolution is the story of organisms emerging from the ocean and eventually populating the ...

Scientists have found wolf remains, thousands of years old, on a small, isolated island in the Baltic Sea—a place where the ...

A night dive off Komodo Island, Indonesia, turned unforgettable when an underwater videographer came face-to-face with one of ...

Why do some ancient animals become fossils while others disappear without a trace? A new study from the University of Lausanne, published in Nature Communications, reveals that part of the answer lies ...

A 12,000-year-old clay figurine recovered by archaeologists in Israel represents the earliest known depiction of human-animal ...

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Historians have long believed that ancient humans fought animals in arena battles, but no definitive evidence has been found — until now. An archeological breakthrough two decades in the making has ...

In the heart of ancient India, people believed something truly powerful—animals had souls. They weren’t just beings to be used for work, protection, or rituals. They were seen as emotional, ...

Washington, DC— Pairing cutting-edge chemistry with artificial intelligence, a multidisciplinary team of scientists found ...