As the last ice age was ending, Australian megafauna that included giant kangaroos went extinct, and it is even more depressing than we thought.

How extinction is not a natural inevitability but a political choice — and why ‘species revivalism’ might not be the answer ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, during the late Pleistocene, many large animal species were simply erased from the planet during a widespread extinction. In Australia, nearly two dozen kangaroo ...

On Monday, biotech company Colossal announced what it views as its first successful de-extinction: the dire wolf. These large predators were lost during the Late Pleistocene extinctions that ...

And then, at the end of the Pleistocene Epoch about 12,000 years ago, most of them vanished. Scientists have argued for decades about the cause of their extinction.

Tens of thousands of years ago, during the late Pleistocene, many large animal species were simply erased from the planet during a widespread extinction. In Australia, nearly two dozen kangaroo ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, during the late Pleistocene, many large animal species were simply erased from the planet during a widespread extinction. In Australia, nearly two dozen kangaroo ...