Little is known about why the woolly rhinoceros went extinct around 14,000 years ago. Scientists have found clues in the ...

Stories of giants appear in ancient texts across cultures, from biblical accounts to Greek mythology. Long dismissed as ...

A humungous shark that lived 115 million years ago surpassed the size of modern-day great whites, paleontologists discovered ...

Lightning-sparked wildfires killed thousands of giant sequoias this year, leading to a staggering two-year death toll that accounts for up to nearly a fifth of Earth's largest trees, officials said ...

Giant “dragon stones” found across the Armenian highlands were shaped and installed by an ancient “water cult”, archaeologists revealed in a new study. The pillar stones carved in animal shapes and ...

In western India, strata of old rocks are providing a glimpse of what may have been a world of heat, a world of creeping continents, and one of giant .