In a lab far from the Arctic, a virus that had been locked in ice for tens of thousands of years was coaxed back into ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...

Massive underground tunnels discovered across South America are not human-made. Scientists now believe extinct giant ground ...

Australopithecus is an extinct group of ape-like modern human relatives—or potentially ancestors—that walked upright and ...

On a small Indonesian island, a tiny human species once thrived in caves above a lush river valley, only to vanish as the ...

Tucked away in Northern California’s Redwood National and State Parks near the humble town of Orick, this 10-mile stretch of asphalt delivers the kind of jaw-dropping, soul-stirring experience that ...

Gold Bluffs Beach Campground, a short detour from the parkway, provides the rare opportunity to camp with ancient redwoods on one side and the Pacific Ocean on the other – a juxtaposition of ...

Huge tunnels under southern Brazil and northern Argentina were potentially made by giant, Ice Age sloths for refuge and rest ...

Amongst the most enduring mythical creatures, which were present in so many ancient cultures, are the dragons. Appearing frequently in folklore and tales from China in the east to Europe in the west, ...

A team of researchers has discovered 16,600 footprints belonging to theropods — the dinosaur group that includes the ...