While uncovering the mysteries of one of the ocean's largest residents in a year-long project, researchers have discovered some concerning details.  What's happening? The basking shark is ...

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

In two new studies, researchers at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, have shed light on how interactions between predators and prey influenced the ...

The curveball is dying in Major League Baseball, with just 8.1 percent of all pitches thrown in the style last year, down from 10.7 percent in 2019. All told, that translates to 22,962 fewer ...

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

When conservation efforts bring a species back from the brink of extinction, it is worth celebrating. It is no easy feat to implement policy changes, and it can be challenging to convince those ...

North America once hosted an impressive array of megafauna that would seem almost mythical to modern observers. From towering mammoths to predators that dwarfed today’s largest carnivores, these ...

‘Lord of the Rings’ director backs long shot de-extinction plan, starring New Zealand’s lost moa The moa had roamed New Zealand for 4,000 years until they became extinct around 600 years ago ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 ...