Australian and New Zealand scientists have unearthed the remains of ancient wildlife in a cave near Waitomo on Aotearoa's ...

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our planet's history.

Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...

The Mesozoic Period produced some of the largest and most unusual herbivores ever to walk the Earth. Fossils reveal ...

The earliest known examples of wooden hand-held tools, believed to be 430,000 years old, have been discovered by researchers ...

While the jellyfish and sea anemone are awake, DNA damage accumulates in their nerve cells and when they doze, that damage is ...

In this epic documentary, we bring you the ultimate showdown between two powerful mastiff breeds: the Cane Corso and the Presa Canario. As part of our Dogumentary tv series, we delve into the world of ...

Correction: A previous version of this article described the kākāpō as almost blind. It has nocturnal vision. Originally ...

The work marks the first time an Ice Age animal’s complete genome has been recovered from tissue preserved inside another ...

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