Long before myths gave us unicorns, there was the Elasmotherium - a real, giant horned beast that roamed the ancient steppes.

Molecules from the 20-million-year-old teeth of a rhino relative are among the oldest ever sequenced, opening tantalizing ...

Proteins from an ancient rhino tooth unearthed in the Canadian Arctic have allowed scientists to look much deeper into the ...

Unlike their smaller cousins, dire wolves hunted large ice age mammals, including mammoths and horses. Their extinction roughly 10,000 years ago coincided with the disappearance of much of their prey.

When this woolly rhino roamed eastern Siberia more than 30,000 years ago, it would have “been one of the largest herbivores in the Ice Age ecosystem, second only to the woolly mammoth,” and ...