Wild salmon are not just rarer than their farmed cousins—they're better looking too. In a new study by my colleagues and I, ...

The three dire wolves birthed by Colossal Biosciences are old enough to hang out together now, essentially becoming a pack.

SCIENTISTS have found new clues about a mysterious ancient human species – indicating they roamed around the earth a million ...

For 75,000 years, the remnants of a diverse ecosystem of Ice Age animals have lain hidden in the shelter of Arne Qvam Cave in ...

This striped predator, often called the Tasmanian tiger, was declared extinct in the 20th century - but some people still ...

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 ...

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