These creatures were built to withstand the Ice Age with their thick fur and insulating fat layers. As the climate warmed and ...

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

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

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

Researchers have determined that grid-like patterns on schist slabs from Ice Age site of Gönnersdorf in Germany depict fish ...

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 ...

In 1979, the black-footed ferret was believed to be extinct. More than four decades later, scientists in the US have not only ...

De-extinction scientists have turned their attention to species from more 'recent' times — notably the Quaternary Period, ...

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