Not all animals have the name recognition of a T. rex or a dodo. However, plenty of well-known animals have vanished from the ...

Some extinct mammals from Australia's Mammoth Cave included (from left) a giant long-nosed echidna, a short-faced kangaroo, a wombat-like marsupial and a Tasmanian thylacine. - Peter Schouten Recent ...

The curious minds at What If consider how ecosystems and evolution might change if the largest flying animal never went ...

Introducing large herbivores in Panama’s forests could fill the gap left by extinct species, new research suggests. A team from the University of Exeter say their findings can provide a “baseline” for ...

Prominent research studies have suggested that our planet is currently experiencing another mass extinction, based on extrapolating extinctions from the past 500 years into the future and the idea ...

Fossil remains of a large, now-extinct bird species have been discovered in Australia’s Boodjamulla National Park. The ground-dwelling species — Menura tyawanoides — is an ancient ancestor of ...