You wouldn't have been able to predict this looking at the modern ecosystem," said paper author and vertebrate paleontologist ...

Knife-toothed reptiles called sebecids went extinct on the mainland 10 million years ago. New fossil evidence puts them on an island 4 million years ago.

Jason Baldes drove down a dusty, sagebrush highway earlier this month, pulling 11 young buffalo in a trailer from Colorado to ...

Scientists believe that a cave east of Athens was a hideout for lions which roamed the ancient Greek countryside thousands of ...

Scientists used fossil data to predict the home range of the prehistoric Protemnodon and its implications for the species’ ...

The diversity of living things is one of five major sections in the Grade 6 science curriculum. Children study the different animal kingdoms and extinct species, among related topics, as they enter ...

Scientists measured the impacts of threats such as hunting, pollution, coastal development and climate change to the marine ...

Skeptics also argue that animals manipulated to mimic extinct ones likely have no future in the wild. “They have to be taught how to live and hunt and take care of themselves,” Klugman said.

Hunting and trapping almost drove them to extinction in the lower 48 states by the mid-20th century. Naomi Louchouarn, program director of wildlife partnerships at Humane World for Animals and an ...

The human-caused changes to our planet that are driving the crisis include pollution, habitat destruction like deforestation, industrial-scale agriculture land use, and, of course, wrapped up in all ...