Earth is full of creatures that never cease to amaze and seem to defy science, or at least the science that we understand. Bdelloid rotifers are among the strangest organisms you can only see with a ...

A paleontologist from The University of Texas at Austin has discovered the fossilized remains of Ice Age animals that have never been found in Central Texas before—and he came across the bones while ...

Beneath Siberian permafrost and Antarctic ice, entire Ice Age creatures have emerged with fur, organs, and even liquid blood still intact. From woolly mammoths and cave lion cubs to steppe bison, ...

The floor of Bender’s Cave looked like a graveyard. Fossils spread across the submerged stream bed in every direction, packed tightly enough that paleontologist John Moretti could barely move without ...

A paleontologist snorkeling through an underwater Texas cave stumbled onto something nobody expected: fossils of giant tortoises, saber-tooth cats and armadillo relatives that had never been ...