Shelly Boyd traced her finger over a raised-relief map made by her students of the Sn̓ʕay̓čkstx traditional territory. She spoke of the great expanse, touching the now-drowned Kettle Falls on the ...

Prototaxites, an extinct organism from the Devonian period, has been thought to be a fungus since its first fossil was ...

Scientists don't call it the "Great Dying" for nothing. About 252 million years ago, upward of 80% of all marine species ...

Manufactured objects will form distinctive, if sometimes hard to interpret, clues to human existence, paleontologist authors ...

Science is taking a major step forward by exploring the possibility of bringing extinct species back to life. Iconic animals like the woolly mammoth, the dodo, and the Tasmanian tiger could ...

In the last ten years, at least 15 species have officially checked out, never to be seen again. It's ironic to think how ...

Scientists found that within a matter of decades around 1 million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction according to a UN report. That same report was not all doom and gloom ...

All of the rarest animals are critically endangered and in immediate need of conservation, or they will be lost to the world permanently. Unlike other porpoises, mature females average one birth every ...

"Now, I can't help but imagine that huge animal wandering around the hills on the O2 Ranch. My next thought is always about the people that faced those huge tusks with only a stone tool in their ...

Animal physiology is the scientific study of the life-supporting properties, functions and processes of animals or their parts. The discipline covers key homeostatic processes, such as the ...

The skelton of an extinct cave bear. The skeleton of an extinct cave bear is to be sold in Tennants Auctioneers’ natural history and taxidermy sale next month. Dating from the late Pleistocene era, ...

Scientists have found ancient nail tooth shark fossils deep inside Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, revealing new information about a mysterious group of extinct predators. Comments ( 0 ) ( ) ...