Prehistoric sharks appeared hundreds of millions of years before dinosaurs and quickly became dominant marine predators. This ...

Zack Snyder has shared another cool black-and-white image of Ben Affleck as Batman from the Knightmare timeline featured in ...

Scientists have long treated mass extinctions as events locked deep in the fossil record. That framing now feels less distant ...

Zack Snyder has taken to Instagram to share another never-before-seen photo of Ben Affleck as Batman from the "Knightmare" ...

The fossilized backbones of what appeared to be woolly mammoths have turned out to come from an entirely different and ...

What will eventually be the largest wildlife crossing in the world is running a behind schedule and over budget due to a host ...

For more than 70 years, what were thought to be mammoth fossils were tucked away in the archives of the University of Alaska ...

Clues from studies of ancient plants and animals have helped archaeologists pin down where the last Neanderthals found refuge ...

Our bones did not begin deep inside the body. They started in the skin, not long after the first complex animals took shape.

Over the past half century, researchers have established that birds evolved from dinosaurs: specifically, the theropods, the ...

Deep introspection is at the heart of many productions hitting local stages this season. WBUR theater critic Jacquinn ...