A fossilized rib from a ferocious, extinct whale was discovered in a creek bank in Yazoo County, Mississippi. The rib belonged to a zygorhiza, a toothed whale that lived 34 to 38 million years ago and ...

A grandmother wrote stories to keep in touch with her grandkids. But somehow, thousands of people discovered them and things ...

Heretic, debater, wife-snatcher, subject of a posthumous cult: Pico della Mirandola certainly had a wild career. In this smart and rangy book, Wilson-Lee, a Cambridge don, paints a glorious portrait ...

Tucked away in Shasta County, about 65 miles northeast of Redding, this aquatic masterpiece performs its spectacular show daily, yet somehow maintains a relatively low profile in the hierarchy of ...

Hollywood still loves its follow-ups – here’s our round-up of 141 (and counting) sequels currently on the way. Hollywood has got just a little warier of sequels over the past few years, and ...

Ice Age" shows how iconic ice age creatures adapted to their changing environment as temperatures rose and ice sheets started ...

A hyper-realistic picture of life during that Pleistocene era emerges with Apple TV’s five-part, computer-driven “Prehistoric ...

The Siberian tiger is an awesome animal, with “cuts of black and washes of orange”, writes conservationist Jonathan Slaght, a roar like “some terrible tide”, at home in the bitter winters of Russia’s ...

THE SPRAWLING WILD FORESTS of northeast Asia are home to enviable roster of charismatic fauna—shaggy wolves and elusive ...

If a bear and a tiger were to chance upon each other in a dense jungle or in a forest clearing, which of these apex predators do you think would win in a fight? Watch A-Z-Animals’ compelling video ...

While the Earth has gone through some dramatic climate changes in its 4.6-billion-year history, natural processes like silicate weathering can help return things to a comfortable equilibrium. A new ...

Newport is among the sites on the Oregon coast under consideration for a new U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, Newport officials said Wednesday. The declaration by Newport City ...