There's a strange assumption most of us carry around without noticing it: that scientists have basically finished cataloguing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here are the wildest extinct prehistoric creatures that aren't dinosaurs. It's hard to imagine how some of these animals even ...

It's Saturday! This week, in an eminently practical analysis of the Boltzmann brain conjecture, physicists put constraints on the idea that memories could arise from random fluctuations in entropy ...

Modern elephants are impressive, but their extinct relatives were far stranger. This documentary explores prehistoric proboscideans like Deinotherium, Platybelodon, and massive mastodons that once ...