The yet-to-be peer-reviewed findings may help find new treatments for cancer and therapies to boost lifespan in humans, ...

The scientific name of the narwhal (Monodon monoceros) literally translates to "one tooth, one horn," an incredibly ironic name.

The choppy gray waters of the Hudson Bay are numbingly cold in the days before the season’s first snow in the Canadian Arctic ...

Extinction is still forever. But scientists at a biotech company are trying what they say is the next best thing to restoring ancient beasts.

The company working to revive the woolly mammoth hasn't got there yet, but it has managed to create a "woolly mouse." ...

Urban birds, from robins to feral pigeons, are also bolder. In a 2008 study scientists found that urban birds are more ...

Woolly mammoths had a slightly shorter version of the gene, which the researchers believe may have contributed to its ...

Fossil evidence reveals that palm trees once thrived in the Canadian Arctic, challenging everything we know about Earth's ...

The findings from Europe’s Copernicus Climate Change Service involve the third warmest February on record for the planet.

Analysis of sedimentary ancient DNA has illuminated 6,000 years of the lives of Adélie penguin colonies on Antarctica's Ross ...

Tiny, cold-blooded animals like flies depend on their environment to regulate body temperature, making them ideal "canaries ...