They’ve lived through the ice age, the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs and brushed off an atomic blast just a mile away ...

When Little Boy was dropped over Hiroshima by the Allied forces in 1945, temperatures in the city rose to 7,000°F from ground ...

Ginkgo Biloba&#039s lineage dates back more than 290 million years to the Permian period, even predating the era of the dinosaurs.

Researchers haven't seen one in the wild in 15 years, even after over 1,000 ROV dives worldwide. Scientists astounded after ...

After so many years learning how microbes work, researchers are now digitally recreating their inner workings to tackle ...

Dec. 17, 2024 — Scientists have discovered the oldest known animal with saber teeth: a predator that lived 270 million years ago. This animal, from before the age of the dinosaurs, was a dog ...

Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins ...

Other experts argued that all birds living before the cataclysm were of the more primitive persuasion, like the ones whose fossils were found in China. Under that theory, a few ancient species ...