We can study animals from all over the world thanks to science, but what about those that no longer exist? The list of extinct mammals could go on for ages, but each animal has a unique story. With ...

North America used to be crawling with giant mammals, from dire wolves to big cats. Horses and camels evolved on the continent while others, like bison, crossed over from Asia. Most of these mammals ...

Ancient collagen preserved in the bones of extinct Australian mammals is revealing their evolutionary relationships, leading to some surprises.

Human hunting, not climate change, played a decisive role in the extinction of large mammals over the last 50,000 years. This conclusion comes from researchers who reviewed over 300 scientific ...

From woolly mammoths to giant sloths, via some lesser-known ice-age beasts like 'killer koalas', the visuals in this ...

Arian Wallach receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Erick Lundgren receives funding from the Centre for Open Science & Synthesis in Ecology and Evolution at the University of Alberta ...

We've seen a US company bring the wolf species back from extinction after more than 10,000 years, and now the next animal on ...

This figure shows how the extinction of large mammals during the late Quaternary period is related to their body size. At the top, you can see the global percentage of species that went extinct based ...

To the delight of conservationists, an adorable little marsupial that had been feared extinct in Western Australia's northern Wheatbelt region has been spotted on a wildlife camera. The brushtail ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Rare fossils that likely came from extinct hippo-like mammals, which existed between 21 and 23 million years ago, were recently discovered by two different beachcombers on the ...

In 1938, zoologist Ellis Le Geyt Troughton mourned that Australia's "gentle and specialized creatures" were "unable to cope with changed conditions and introduced enemies." The role of these "enemies" ...