Long before T. rex, the Earth was dominated by super-carnivores stranger and more terrifying than anything dreamed up by ...

U.S. officials proposed Monday to protect the pangolin, a small, nocturnal mammal covered in scales, under the Endangered ...

“Fossils deposited in hot, dry and arid places, such as large parts of Australia, lose their collagen very early…. The major challenge [has been] discovering bones that contain [enough] collagen to ...

Fossil teeth show extinct giant kangaroos spent their lives close to home – and perished when the climate changed. Large kangaroos today roam long distances across the outback, often surviving ...

The Amami rabbit (Pentalagus furnessi) represents an evolutionary marvel, often described as a “living fossil” due to its primitive characteristics that resemble ancient rabbit ancestors. Endemic to ...

Fossils accumulated in the caves because they acted like giant pitfall traps and also lairs of predators such as thylacines, Tasmanian devils, marsupial lions, owls, raptors and the now-endangered ...

Our results suggest the giant kangaroos lived around the caves from at least 500,000 years ago to about 280,000 years ago. After this they disappeared from the Mount Etna fossil record.

Giant kangaroos stuck close to home and went extinct when climate change caused that home to disappear, according to a study published April 23, 2025 in the open-access journal PLOS One by ...

In 2016, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) downgraded the giant panda from “endangered” to “vulnerable,” marking a significant milestone in the species’ recovery. China’s ...

Many huge animals went extinct surprisingly recently. When they died, their ecological role was lost with them. If we must bring back extinct species, let’s focus on the giant herbivores ...

Photo of the giant wolves Romulus and Remus at one month old. This birth marks a key milestone in "de-extinction" research, a controversial field aimed at bringing extinct species back to life. Led by ...

Recent conservation efforts have led to the rediscovery of eight species previously thought to be extinct, from Wallace's Giant Bee to Voeltzkow's Chameleon. These discoveries, happening between ...