Zealandia, the world’s first fully fenced urban ecosanctuary, is taking a long view on conservation—and creating one of New ...

Long before big cats, terror birds reigned as apex predators. Here’s how these flightless birds hunted, and why they went ...

Scientists studied a mammal that lived 250 million years ago and found they had an eardrum that could detect and react to ...

More than 14,000 years ago, a wolf pup ate a piece of woolly rhino. Scientists have analyzed the rhino's DNA to figure out ...

Discover more about the egg-laying monotremes of Oceania and the ancient traits they still carry.

Towards the end of the last ice age, an ancient wolf feasted on a young woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis). When the ...

In ancient Egypt, they were seen as guides and protectors, admired for their ability to survive winter through hibernation, a ...

Pioneering techniques used in this research may soon be applied to other dinosaur fossils and alter the course of ...

Andrewsarchus is often described as the largest carnivorous land mammal of all time, but the evidence is surprisingly thin.

Researchers excavated seven mummies along with the bones of 54 other cheetahs from a site near the city of Arar.

The Sumatran rhino looks like it wandered out of another era and somehow got lost in the present day. Smaller than its ...

Deep inside a fossil-filled cave in the Dominican Republic, researchers uncovered evidence of an unexpected interaction ...