The animals found across the globe included such species as reptiles, fish and mammals. In October, an extinct colony of little penguins was reestablished after 30 years when a chick hatched for ...

New research suggests that they smashed animal bones into tiny pieces before boiling them to extract the high-calorie grease ...

New species of extinct walrus discovered. Only one walrus species remains on Earth. By Laura Baisas. Published Aug 13, 2024 7:00 AM EDT.

Facebook X Reddit Email Save. Walruses (Odobenus rosmarus) are distinct for their massive, long tusks and fuzzy mustache-like faces, but a recently discovered extinct species looks slightly ...

Preserved scraps of woolly mammoth DNA, like those from this specimen found in 2013 in Siberia, could pave the way for the species’ return (Credit: Kazuhiro Nogi/Getty Images) ...

The remains of at least 16 individuals, including children, have been discovered in a cave in eastern China, and are believed to represent a new, previously unknown human species ...

Over the past 500 years, 14 ocean species have gone extinct, another 70 could disappear. Subscribe ... These fish are predators and are found near southern Florida, the Florida Keys, Bermuda ...

The now-extinct species was recently discovered by paleontologists using fossils found in the U.K. and Belgium, according to a study published Aug. 13 in the journal PeerJ Life & Environment.

WASHINGTON - Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms ...

In a new study, published Aug. 6 in the journal Communications Biology, researchers reanalyzed the first tardigrade fossils ever discovered — a pair of extinct water bears frozen within amber ...