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From massive predators to dangerous beasts, the UK was once home to animals you would never want to encounter today. This video explores the terrifying creatures that went extinct long ago. Russia ...

Eight Socorro dove chicks have hatched at Chester Zoo this year, representing hope for a species that went extinct in the wild in the 1970s due to feral cats and habitat destruction from sheep. All ...

Scientists have discovered that a gene called MUC19, inherited from Denisovans through ancient interbreeding, may have played a vital role in helping Indigenous ancestors adapt as they migrated into ...

CHISHOLM — Long on the books but not enforced, Minnesota regulators are beginning to implement the state’s limit on sulfate released into wild rice waters, reigniting a contentious environmental ...

Fewer than 100 dusky gopher frogs were known to remain. Thanks to some very dedicated humans, numbers are now on the rise. Credit...Tony Cenicola/the New York Times Supported by By Catrin Einhorn It ...

Thousands of years ago, ancient humans undertook a treacherous journey, crossing hundreds of miles of ice over the Bering Strait to the unknown world of the Americas. Now, a new study led by the ...

Dire wolves were fearsome predators that prowled around during the Late Pleistocene, between roughly 10,000 and 250,000 years ago. These carnivorous canids (Aenocyon dirus) were specialized hunters, ...

This past spring, a genetics startup company called Colossal introduced the world to a trio of young wolves that are extremely close genetic cousins of dire wolves. (Their names are Romulus, Remus — ...

It's interesting to think how different our landscapes would look if certain species didn't go extinct. There would be Smilodon and ground sloths in north America and bears and wolves in the UK.