Tens of thousands of years ago, Australia was still home to enigmatic megafauna—large land animals such as giant marsupial ...

The extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna may be people’s fault after all, according to a recent study.

Colossal Biosciences, the company which bills itself as the world’s first de-extinction company, recently announced the de-extinction of the dire wolf, a Pleistocene animal which went extinct about 12 ...

A new look at cuts on a giant kangaroo bone reveal First Peoples as fossil collectors, not hunters who helped drive species extinct, some scientists argue.

Mammoths, dire wolves and saber-toothed cats. Oh my, what a fascinating walk through Pleistocene history is provided by a relatively new Southern Nevada state park. Ice Age Fossils State Park opened ...

Imagine a sloth. You probably picture a medium-sized, tree-dwelling creature hanging from a branch. Today's sloths—commonly ...

Martonis discussed the differences between mammoths and mastodons and important local historical finds. P-J photo by Sara Holthouse BEMUS POINT — The Bemus Point Historical Society welcomed historian ...

Many people are curious about the past. I remember reading H. G. Wells’ “The Time Machine” and thinking how interesting it would be if we really could find a way to travel back in time and observe our ...

YAKUTSK, October 18. /TASS/. The number of animals in the Pleistocene Park in Yakutia's north, where experts have been recreating the mammoth steppe, may be increased from 150 to 2,000, the park's ...

Their names are Romulus, Remus and Khaleesi, and they’re the first dire wolves to walk the Earth in over 10,000 years — or so one biotech company and a flurry of recent headlines say. On April 7, ...

For most people, an extinct species is an abstraction, a set of bones they might have seen on display in a museum. For Gennady Boeskorov, they are things he has interacted with directly, studying ...