A bike ride led eight-year-old Henri to a remarkable discovery—an enormous prehistoric tusk buried near his Austrian hometown ...

A four-decade quest to bring the quagga back is being heralded as a success, but not everyone is impressed ...

Instead of cloning the creature, however, scientists attempted to resurrect the quagga via “selective rebreeding” aka ...

The genetic history of the aurochs, an extinct cattle species, was a mystery until scientists analyzed DNA found in the bones of ancient animals.

Lonesome George was discovered motionless in his enclosure, one morning in June 2012. Overnight, George had taken not only ...

The woolly mammoth was a large, warm-blooded herbivore that lived in the cold tundra of Asia, Europe, and North America ...

It was a perfect fall day as two scuba divers descended on the James R. Bentley shipwreck in Lake Huron with the goal of ...

A Soviet zoologist with a passion for long-extinct mammals set out to reinvigorate the landscape of the Caucasus in the 20th ...

A team of geologists, paleontologists, and mammoth fauna studies specialists, affiliated with several institutions in Russia, has found evidence that a woolly rhino found in the Siberian ice back in ...

After the last known Tasmanian tiger died in captivity over 80 years ago, this marsupial predator might be a few steps away from a return to the world of the living.

The project will study the structure and function of temperature-sensitive proteins in animals adapted to different thermal ...

The site is known for its array of prehistoric art, consisting of 406 engraved slabs ... Among these plaquettes are several ...