A 113-million-year-old hell ant that once lived in northeastern Brazil is now the oldest ant specimen known to science, finds ...

A fossilised 113-million-year-old hell ant from Brazil adds to the evidence that the first ants evolved in the southern ...

What roils beneath Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean circulation, climate patterns, and even animal activity and evolution. In fact, ...

Scientists think the earliest mammals, which lived at the time of the dinosaurs, were quite hairy. But over hundreds of millions of years, a small handful of mammals, including humans, evolved to have ...

As forests continue to disappear and cities expand, wild animals like elephants are increasingly forced into human settlements. Haridwar, in particular, has been dealing with a frequent visitor ...

Fishermen working off the coast of Taiwan long have dredged up the bones of ancient animals — elephants, water buffalo and hyenas — in their nets, relics of an ice age past when sea levels ...

Then, read about the legend of the Gordian Knot, the ancient Greek puzzle that was deemed unsolvable until Alexander the Great conquered it. Amber Morgan is an Editorial Fellow for All That's ...

I can’t list them all (that would be a mammoth task) but below are what I reckon are the most interesting ... the ancient doors, Jumbo was led to Samuel Johnson's Corner. Here, the elephant ...

Colossal, a genetics startup, has birthed three pups that contain ancient DNA retrieved from the remains of the animal’s ...

Taum Sauk Mountain State Park, home to Missouri’s highest point and its tallest waterfall, lies just a short drive away.

Hidden among the rolling hills of southeastern Missouri lies a geological wonderland where massive pink granite boulders stand like ancient sentinels, their billion-year-old forms creating one of ...

If the prehistoric mastodon fossil hadn't been found when it was, it might have dried out and crumbled. A teenager went looking for arrowheads on a friend’s farm in Iowa. Instead, he found the bones ...