What roils beneath Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean circulation, climate patterns, and even animal activity and evolution. In fact, ...

A type of extinct kangaroo, known as the “giant wallaby,” lived during the Pleistocene era. These creatures existed around two and a half million to ten thousand years ago. Let’s Discover how recent ...

Everyone knows about the dinosaur extinction but not many know about the rise of mammals that followed, such as the ...

Over the past week, the media have been inundated with news of the “de-extinction” of the dire wolf (Aenocyon dirus) – a species that went extinct about 13,000 years ago.

Many huge animals went extinct surprisingly recently. When they died, their ecological role was lost with them.