Shoebill birds can reach a height of five feet, but the prehistoric-looking creatures generally aren't taller than people.

Big Bird barely made it out of the 1980s in one piece. Not only was Sesame Street' s biggest star in talks to ride aboard the ...

Archaeologists uncover a massive Maya monument in Mexico, challenging long-held beliefs about ancient power and early civilization.

A hyper-realistic picture of life during that Pleistocene era emerges with Apple TV's five-part, computer-driven "Prehistoric ...

Parcel 0712 is part of a complex of oil and gas leases in ecologically valuable sagebrush-steppe that the Bureau of Land Management has proposed for auction in June.

Plans for a 230-mile transmission line threaten Nevada’s wilderness and have united hunters and wildlife groups ...

Picture Antarctica today and what comes to mind? Large ice floes bobbing in the Southern Ocean? Maybe a remote outpost ...

Found in swampy areas of North America, the star-nosed mole's titular appendage consists of 22 probes with 25,000 sensory ...

Astronauts reveal an alarming greenish hue in Lake Tana: satellite images show algae growth and hidden threats to this ...

South America is a beautiful continent where nature lives in full bloom. Not many must be aware of the fact that the ...

(CNN) — Global demand for rare earth minerals is driving the toxic pollution of some of Asia’s most important rivers, threatening the health and livelihoods of tens of millions of people. Rare earths ...