Why did this extinct bird have such a weird, long toe? B Becky Ferreira (Trilobites): Some 99 million years ago, a small animal with a weird elongated toe died and became partially entombed in amber.

Native to Madagascar, this lemur looks like a strange mix of several animals. It has the round eyes of an owl ... Aye-ayes were considered extinct until they were rediscovered in the wild in the 1950s ...

DVUR KRALOVE – Four Barbary lion cubs were born recently in a Czech zoo, a vital contribution for a small surviving population of the rare lion that is extinct in the wild. The three females and ...

Two Mississippi teens went to a creek to cool off and stumbled across a jaw of a mastodon, an animal that went extinct more ...

Many were killed by gladiators in Roman times, while overhunting and a loss of habitat contributed to their extinction later. The last known photo of a wild lion was taken in 1925, while the last ...