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 ...

If you’re an animal lover, there’s a good chance that the upcoming Planet Zoo 2 is already on your radar. Releasing in October, this sequel once again tasks you with designing and managing your own ...

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 ...

Previously, the oldest amber dated to around 330 million years old, from plants that lived during the Late Carboniferous.

Imagine waking up in a world 10,000 years ago. Towering grasslands stretch as far as the eye can see, woolly mammoths roam ...

Scientists believed the tiny Cozumel fox had vanished from the planet, with nothing left but ancient bone fragments to prove it ever existed. Then a disoriented animal turned up along a coastal ...

A rare 450-million-year-old fossil with preserved soft tissue is revealing how some of Earth's earliest reef animals lived ...

A new Stanford-led study offers the clearest picture yet of how some ocean life survived our planet's biggest mass extinction ...

A recently published study adds more scientific weight to a claim the Trump administration is trying to discredit: The Rice’s ...

For nearly 30 million years, a 2,000-pound beast known as the entelodont ruled a sweeping empire from Mongolia to what is now Nebraska. With a head that made up almost half of its body length and ...