Previously, the oldest known ants came from amber in France and Myanmar, dating back about 100 million years. This new specimen pushes that date back by 13 million years. More importantly, it’s the ...

Scientists say it is a member of Haidomyrmecinae - an extinct group that only lived during the Cretaceous period.

Brazilian fossil hunters unearthed Earth's oldest known ant, a 113 million-year-old predator with scythe-like jaws that ...

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 ...

Colossal Biosciences claims it has revived an extinct species, but scientists outside the company are skeptical.

From Ingenuity’s flights, it’s clear that helicopters offer a new way to explore Mars. Planetary experts are already dreaming up ambitious missions, like a newly proposed Martian chopper-based ...

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 ...

“DNA extracted from two pastoralist women who were buried at the rock shelter around 7,000 years ago reveals that most of their ancestry can be traced to a previously unknown ancient North ...