On a lawn inside the Bronx Zoo, rows of headstones display multiple animal species, making for an eerie display during the ...

India's rich wildlife heritage has seen the disappearance of several species, including the Indian cheetah, Javan rhinoceros, ...

It may be hard to imagine a time when giant mastodons and other long-extinct animals were roaming the prairies of South ...

Researchers analyzing ancient fossils from caves across Western Australia have uncovered a completely new species of bettong ...

Short ancient humans in Indonesia called Homo floresiensis disappeared possibly due to severe drought that gripped their ...

Huge tunnels under southern Brazil and northern Argentina were potentially made by giant, Ice Age sloths for refuge and rest ...

This video explores five species once declared extinct that were later found alive in surprising locations. It follows the circumstances that allowed these animals to persist unnoticed for years or ...

They came up a little short. A small archaic hominid known as the “hobbit” might have died out around 50,000 years ago after ...

Scientists from several countries have determined that mosasaurs, Cretaceous-era marine reptiles, once thrived in freshwater ...

The University of Colorado Boulder has acquired a rare Wollemi pine tree, a tree species that lived alongside dinosaurs and ...

Mosasaurs, giant marine reptiles that existed more than 66 million years ago, lived not only in the sea but also in rivers.

Paleontologists counted the record-setting tracks and uncovered evidence of dinosaurs swimming and dragging their tails along what was a muddy superhighway for the animals millions of years ago ...