So many humans live on Earth, it’s hard to imagine there are animals we haven’t seen for years, decades, or even millions of years, but it keeps happening! Animals believed extinct that were found ...

Earth looked much different not just millions, but even decades and centuries ago. Many animal species that once existed are nowhere to be found. From human activity to climate change, new animals ...

A new study co-led by the Smithsonian’s Museum Conservation Institute and Harvard University reveals that 1.5–18 million-year-old mammalian fossils from Kenya contain proteins in their enamel that ...

Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon. Not all species that have been classified as ...

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