In its 4.5 billion year history, Earth has undergone five mass extinctions and we are potentially in a sixth era of mass death. Today’s crocodylians are the surviving members of a lineage called ...

Most people think of crocodilians as living fossils—stubbornly unchanged, prehistoric relics that have ruled the world's swampiest corners for millions of years. But their evolutionary history tells a ...

The San Diego Zoo Safari Park's elephants raced to protect their calves with an "alert circle" when a 5.2 magnitude earthquake struck Julian in Southern California.

Flightless birds, like the dodo bird of the small Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, have had a rough go of it over the past ...

The Dodo Returns? After 300 years, the extinct dodo might walk the Earth again. Science is rewriting history. After 300 years ...

Colossal has managed to breed after genetically engineering ancient dire wolf DNA into genomes of grey wolves, their closest living relatives.

A ground-breaking science firm that brought back the dire wolf revealed its extraordinary plans to reintroduce more extinct ...