The cave lion had a history of interbreeding with modern lions that was tightly linked to past climatic changes. The post ...

The Bronx Zoo announced on May 26 the birth of a rare Przewalski's horse foal, one of about 2,000 believed to exist worldwide ...

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 ...

Threats from deforestation, pollution, hunting, and climate change are contributing to the extinction of endangered species. In the US, threatened and endangered species are protected under the ...

A fossil mammal tooth smaller than a grain of rice does not announce itself loudly. It must be hard won from sediment and ...

Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon. Not all species that have been classified as ...

A new study from Princeton University, the Smithsonian Institute, the Mpala Research Centre and many partner institutions has now documented the interconnection between the largest animals in the ...

By Eric Washburn When I was a kid growing up in Aurora in the late 1960s and early 1970s, one of my favorite things to do was ...