There’s an evolutionary reason behind wisdom teeth and why they cause so much trouble today.

Most people think of crocodilians as living fossils—stubbornly unchanged, prehistoric relics that have ruled the world's swampiest corners for millions of years. But their evolutionary history tells a ...

In its 4.5 billion year history, Earth has undergone five mass extinctions and we are potentially in a sixth era of mass death. Today’s crocodylians are the surviving members of a lineage called ...

A father of two was nearly decapitated in front of his wife and left in critical condition by an axe-wielding menace as the couple were in the middle of a cross-country trip home — one year after ...

Most professional biologists, myself included, do not think they have brought dire wolves back from extinction by any ...

A Texas-based genetics company says the long-extinct dire wolf is back. Some critics say that's not quite true.

The cause of death in these mysterious cases has, at one time or another, been reported as spontaneous human combustion—but ...

Halloween has always been one of my favorite celebrations because there’s just so much room for trying new things—like these ...

Archaeologists recovered fragments of armor, nails from Roman military boots, scale mail, and a rusted iron dagger. X-ray ...

Colossal, the company looking to bring back the woolly mammoth from extinction has born three dire wolves, an animal extinct ...

Dire wolves who were prominent in HBO's "Game of Thrones" series no longer belong solely to the realm of fantasy. Meet ...