If there were any contender for a real-life equivalent to the Oliphaunts of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, it would be ...

What roils beneath Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean ...

Wild elephant encounters and ancient royal palaces are just some of the highlights of cycling through Sri Lanka, as Fiona Harper discovers.

A team of scientists found prehistoric animal footprints that indicate how creatures behaved in Oregon as far back as 50 ...

A jawbone dredged up from the seafloor off Taiwan belongs to an ancient human species known as Denisovans, protein fragments ...

Scientists have made a leap in genetic engineering by pushing elephant cells into an embryonic-like state. This marks a major step toward recreating traits of the extinct woolly mammoth, offering new ...

After bringing dire wolves back from extinction, scientists are confident we could soon see the return of the long-dead woolly mammoth. Woolly mammoths roamed Europe, Asia, and North America from ...

Elephants are incredibly ancient parts of our world. Technically called proboscideans, for the long trunks later forms would evolve, the very first appeared about 60 million years ago, when Earth ...

A wide variety of the exotic animals evolved on Earth over the past 60 million years Riley Black Smart News History Science ...