A new study reveals that the Tyrannosaurus rex took up to 40 years to fully grow.

New research indicates that humans shaped their environments through hunting and controlled use of fire tens of thousands of ...

Birds are some of nature’s most beautiful creatures — but a few of our feathered friends are truly bizarre — like these 25 ...

In northern South America and on some Caribbean islands, inhabiting regions of Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad, Curaçao, Aruba, ...

Long before big cats, terror birds reigned as apex predators. Here’s how these flightless birds hunted, and why they went ...

The king cobra is the longest venomous snake alive today, but it is not the largest venomous snake to have ever existed.

Scientists have successfully extracted the DNA of ancient mummified cheetahs discovered in a cave in Saudi Arabia. This is ...

Modern humans are the latest in a long line of creatures belonging to the Homo genus, although until now we knew relatively ...