Imagine stepping onto the icy shores of ancient Antarctica—not to see today’s tuxedoed, knee-high Emperor penguins, but to ...

Large kangaroos today roam long distances across the outback, often surviving droughts by moving in mobs to find new food ...

Giant kangaroos stayed local, and rapid climate change gradually destroyed their lush rainforest home, leading to extinction.

Scientists used fossil data to predict the home range of the prehistoric Protemnodon and its implications for the species’ ...

Australia’s giant Protemnodon kangaroos didn’t die out everywhere at the same time. Instead, extinction proceeded one habitat ...

The American genetic engineering firm Colossal Biosciences recently announced to much fanfare it had "de-extincted" the dire ...

Over 100 rhinos died at the same time because of a volcanic eruption in prehistoric Nebraska. It turns out they were all part ...

Researchers may have discovered Mississippi's largest ever mosasaur after pulling a Cretaceous-aged fossil out of a riverbed ...

It’s wonderful to imagine kangaroos almost four times the size of big reds hopping around ancient Australia, but this lot ...

A new peer-reviewed study has found that, unlike modern kangaroos, the extinct marsupial megafauna Protemnodon were less ...

(NEXSTAR) — This week, a Texas-based biosciences company, which aims to “de-extinct” animal species of the past (and ones ...

Dire wolves — or really, wolves with traits like the extinct species — are back. But New York has plenty of its own ...