Little is known about why the woolly rhinoceros went extinct around 14,000 years ago. Scientists have found clues in the ...

The woolly rhino, Coelodonta antiquitatis, would have been an impressive sight to the ancient people who painted images of ...

Tuesday night, due to a court order in an ongoing lawsuit between the city and the bookstore owner, the few remaining ...

Earth looked much different not just millions, but even decades and centuries ago. Many animal species that once existed are ...

In 1978, Soviet scientists stumbled upon a family living in a remote part of Russia. They hadn’t interacted with outsiders for decades. Almost half a century later, one of them is still there ...

A surprising new study has found that blocking reproduction in some mammals may increase their life expectancy by an average ...

Brown bears, Greece’s largest predator, have made a remarkable comeback. Their numbers have increased roughly fourfold since ...

Discover why coyote populations are booming across the U.S. and why traditional efforts to control them keep failing.

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Analysis of woolly rhinoceros DNA recovered from the permafrost-preserved wolf further hints that the Ice Age beasts went ...

Spiders are arachnids, a class of arthropods closely related to scorpions, mites, and ticks. With over 45,000 species, ...