As the Arctic warms faster than anywhere else on Earth, animals that have evolved to survive the cold face unprecedented ...

Lions are some of the largest cats on the planet, and extinct subspecies used to be even larger than modern lions.

Dusicyon australis — a canid found nowhere else except this island. Also called the Falkland wolf, the warrah looked like a ...

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This overgrazing by deer and other herbivores has held back the recovery of woodlands, peatlands and heathlands across the ...

Many thousands of years ago, the Sarasota-Manatee area was home to a diverse mix of now-extinct mammals—most notably, saber-tooth cats, mastodons and giant ground sloths called Megatherium, which ...

An international team of scientists has reconstructed the genetic history of horses in the Iberian Peninsula over the past 26,000 years, revealing a past that includes extinct lineages, ancestral ...

A recent study in Norway unveils 75,000-year-old animal remains, challenging previous assumptions about Ice Age megafauna ...

The earlier study had uncovered stone tools on the island of Flores at a site called Wolo Sege, which provided evidence of ...

A recent study published by Cambridge University Press finds that the "exceedingly rare" land mammal fossils from 20 million years ago that were found near Maysville fill "an important gap in our ...

The bones of a vast community of 46 animals in a 75,000-year-old cave in Norway have provided a stunning and rare snapshot of ...

Arctic animal remains from a cave in Norway offers critical insights into how past climate shifts shaped the Arctic ...