Paul Scofield, a project adviser and senior curator of natural history at the Canterbury Museum in Christchurch, New Zealand, ...

The conodont Wurmiella excavata was said to have had razor-sharp structures that processed prey from left to right, rather ...

Filmmaker Peter Jackson owns one of the largest private collections of bones of an extinct New Zealand bird called the moa. His fascination with the flightless ostrich-like bird has led to an unusual ...

A mountain lion? An escaped pet? Something else entirely? Just what was caught on a Ring camera wandering Grand Avenue is a ...

That's a long time, but like all animals on Earth we are at risk of becoming extinct. Consider what happened to the Neanderthals, a close relative of Homo sapiens.

Cloning extinct animals raises ethical concerns about biodiversity, animal welfare, and unintended consequences. While it could advance science and conservation, critics question the morality of ...

A colour-corrected image showing the last-known Toolache-wallaby. Source: NFSA/FNSSA An extinct Australian animal can once again be seen bounding across a paddock after rare 16mm film was ...

Scientists have got their hands on the oldest animal proteins yet, extracted from 18-million-year-old fossilized mammal teeth in East Africa, pushing the record back by an astonishing 14 to 15 million ...

The collapse of tropical forests during Earth's most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged ...

Isolation allows creatures to thrive as their relatives perish due to the threats present on much larger landmasses ...

Long ago, approximately 2.6 million years ago during the Ice Age, prehistoric animals roamed throughout the U.S., including Louisiana. Prehistoric megafauna like the mastodon, which were large ...