Today's Arctic may feel remote and desolate, but more than 70 million years ago, it was a surprisingly lively place for some ...

Scientists discovered three new mammal species that survived in Alaska’s ancient Arctic during the age of dinosaurs.

Three previously unknown species of rodent-like mammals that once scurried alongside dinosaurs in what is now northern Alaska ...

Mammals are quite diverse. They come in all shapes, sizes, colors, and activity levels. They also differ widely by lifespan.

Seventy-three million years ago, in Alaska's dark and frozen landscape, a group of small, rodent-like creatures was quietly ...

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New Guinea's tropical rainforests are home to one of the animal kingdom's most spectacular courtship rituals, with male birds ...

Fossilized teeth discovered in Alaska’s far north have revealed three previously unknown mammal species that lived 73 million ...

Learn more about the newly identified species from the Arctic that were part of one of the longest living mammal groups on ...

Scientists studied ancient fungal spores and discovered Earth may already have been under stress before the asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs.

Prehistoric proboscideans were far stranger and more diverse than modern elephants, evolving bizarre tusks, enormous bodies, and feeding adaptations unlike anything alive today. Some species, like ...