Ambitious projects aim to put dire wolves, woolly mammoths and passenger pigeons back into our ecosystems. But with so many ...

In two new studies, researchers at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, have shed ...

New fossil studies reveal that ancient predators like saber-toothed cats vanished rapidly after their primary prey species ...

Uncover the ancient history of Big Bone Lick State Park in Union, Kentucky. Learn how this fossil-rich salt lick became the ...

Denis Richard watched five men heave a giant manta ray from the waters off Panama City Beach and plop it into a pool on their ...

If large creatures like elephants, giraffes and bison are allowed to thrive, they could alter habitats that allow for the ...

An Australian research vessel testing a localized form of climate engineering — artificial modification of the weather — to ...

What is a living fossil? Learn more about the living fossils among us and why this topic is highly debated among scientists.

Sudden deaths : the chronology of terminal Pleistocene megafaunal extinction / Stuart Fiedel -- Estimates of Clovis-era megafaunal populations and their extinction risks / Gary Haynes -- Paleobiology ...

The poles can flip over the course of hundreds or thousands of years, and this can happen at random, with intervals ranging ...

The results contradict previous assumptions that certain species went extinct due to their specialized diets. Instead, the study found that most species were mixed feeders, capable of consuming a ...