A giant ocean predator that terrorised the seas during the time of the dinosaurs may have also hunted in rivers, a tooth ...

Scientists say 40ft prehistoric sea monster may also have terrorised rivers - The mosasaur may have occupied a similar niche ...

“This finding is important because it shows, for the first time, that a unique group of polar bears in the warmest part of Greenland are using ‘jumping genes’ to rapidly rewrite their own DNA, which ...

New research reveals a link between rising temperatures and changes in polar bear DNA, which may be helping them adapt and survive in increasingly challenging environments.

“Redheads are not going extinct,” says Katerina Zorina-Lichtenwalter, a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Behavioral ...

Historically, Black bears were the biggest predator to travel the Big Bend area of Texas. But overhunting and habitat loss ...

Discover the extraordinary prehistoric giants – from mega-sloths to monster sharks – that once made today’s animals look ...

Bears look like textbook mammals, but hidden in their evolutionary history are two dramatic departures from the standard ...

Ancient collagen preserved in the bones of extinct Australian mammals is revealing their evolutionary relationships, leading to some surprises.

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Caleb Williams and the Bears will likely pull off a couple of more surprises to reach the playoffs this season. Patrick McDermott / Getty Images Let’s start here, with a question that feels all too ...

The Jomon people living in prehistoric Japan had "little to no" Denisovan DNA, suggesting their ancestors may not have been in contact with this now-extinct group of Eurasian humans, a new study ...