The population of an elusive fox species that roams the Sierra Nevada likely only has about 50 individuals left. Biologists ...

A teenager's skeleton lay supine in a shallow pit on a bed of red ocher, his remains adorned with several ivory pendants, ...

Why did mammoths and other contemporary mammals disappear? Throughout its eventful existence, Earth has experienced five major mass extinctions, the last of which is perhaps the best known because it ...

Deep inside the world’s longest cave system, scientists have uncovered two terrifying extinct predators that once prowled a ...

Beneath rolling hills and quiet forests in Kentucky lies a hidden world so vast that scientists are still discovering new ...

The longest mapped network of caves in the world also contains one of the most implausible marine collections in North America. In Mammoth Cave, sharks and their kinsmen are preserved in layers of ...

Here, things get interesting, as just recently it was announced that two remarkably intact dinosaurs had been discovered in ...

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CHEROKEE COUNTY, Ga. — A specialized team in Cherokee County recently helped assist with the rescue of a mammoth donkey. Cherokee County Fire & Emergency Services said on Facebook its Technical Rescue ...

The fossilized backbones of what appeared to be woolly mammoths have turned out to come from an entirely different and unexpected animal. Archaeologist Otto Geist came across the bones – two ...

The new National Geographic series Pole to Pole ventures deep into the Amazon in search of creatures whose venom may yield new life-saving drugs. In episode 2 of Pole to Pole, Will Smith captures a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1838, a teenage slave from Kentucky was given a rare opportunity. Rather than breaking his back in the fields with his peers, ...