A remarkable discovery in North Dakota as coal miners unearthed a rare giant Ice Age mammoth tusk, along with over 20 ...

A 2016 beach discovery of ancient megafauna fossils in Australia revealed a past inhabited by giant marsupials and flightless ...

A recent feature by Maria Faith Saligumba for Discover Wildlife Science has renewed attention on a part of Costa Rica’s history that many people rarely think about: the giant animals that once lived ...

A drop in the number of huge animals 200,000 years ago may have forced ancient humans to abandon heavy-duty stone tools in favour of lightweight toolkits to hunt smaller animals. That’s according to a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This ...

The Pleistocene is a geologic epoch within the Quaternary Period, spanning roughly 2.58 million to 11,700 years ago, characterized by repeated glacial–interglacial cycles driven by orbital ...

It’s a phenomenon so prevalent it’s practically a punchline: Women get hangry when Aunt Flo comes to town. To be more specific, they stereotypically “tend to crave sugar and chocolate before their ...

Having a period is a lot like being a gladiator. Between the blood, sweat, and tears—and the relentless feeling of being punched in the stomach—many of us are desperate enough to try anything just to ...

Some nights, when I should be doing something sensible or useful, I end up looking at pictures of blue whales and feeling very, very tiny. We talk a lot about the megafauna that are gone – mammoths, ...

Across parts of South America, researchers have made an unusual discovery – a vast network of massive underground tunnels carved into a rocky landscape. Their origins were a mystery – too large to be ...

Long before modern species appeared, otters existed that were closer in size to lions than the small mammals known today. This video explores how these massive predators dominated rivers and ...