Thought to be extinct in the wild, the Spix Macaw currently exists in captivity with their numbers in the dismally low 60 to ...
Few complete skeletons remain of this gentle behemoth, who was destroyed by explorers and fur traders in the Arctic.
Around 110 million years ago, an apparent dinosaur ate two pterosaurs and four fish and, for whatever reason, threw them back up. A rare mix of geological conditions preserved this dinosaur vomit for ...
Scientists find the DNA of a 300,000-year-old horse in Schöningen, driven to extinction by hunting, next to a wooden spear ...
For decades, biologists have warned that humanity is precipitating a sixth mass extinction. By some estimates, species are ...
The "first of its kind in the UK" report identified the country's rarest species, including the high brown fritillary ...
How did extinct animals move? Paleontologists are interested in figuring this out since it can tell us more about their ways of life, such as whether they were agile enough to hunt prey. It can also ...