Imagine walking through a forest only to realize you're being hunted by a 40-foot snake, or on a dive in the ocean and noticing a great white shark trying to escape a predator so big it makes the ...

We can study animals from all over the world thanks to science, but what about those that no longer exist? The list of extinct mammals could go on for ages, but each animal has a unique story. With ...

The history of the Earth spans about 4.5 billion years, during which countless creatures have appeared and gone extinct thanks to evolution. The only evidence we have that they existed is their ...

The curious minds at What If explore the top five extinct creatures still imagined today, revealing how their legacies continue to inspire fear and fascination.

WASHINGTON, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Researchers have sequenced the gene map of a long-extinct, mummified woolly mammoth, using DNA taken from its hair. Sign up here. The sequence shows that mammoths were ...