New York Post newsroom and editorial staff were not involved in the creation of this content. When Colossal Biosciences announced the birth of dire wolves in 2025, the reaction was immediate and ...
A recent study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that differences in physiology, metabolism, ...
Two marsupial species, absent from the living record for roughly 6,000 years and known only from cave fossils in western New ...
Clams and snails rule today’s shores because their ancient ancestors survived a catastrophe that erased nearly all ocean life. The shells scattered along modern beaches are clues to an ancient ...
Modern elephants are impressive, but their extinct relatives were far stranger. This documentary explores prehistoric ...
Astronomers have spent years searching for a possible hidden giant planet far beyond Neptune. Unusual orbits among distant Kuiper Belt objects have fueled the Planet Nine theory, but recent ...
Carlyn Kranking is Smithsonian magazine’s associate web editor for science. She edits online science features on everything ...
On West Africa’s stunningly diverse Bioko Island, rare primates are being slaughtered to feed a growing bush-meat trade. When ...