Mammoths were thought to be driven to extinction by humans, but it was something else entirely that is happening again today that threatens us all.

Scientists discovered a new marsupial species and woylie subspecies, but extinction threatens their fragile survival.

There have long been five acknowledged living species of bettong: the boodie, the woylie, the northern bettong, the rufous ...

A comparison of the thylacine’s genome to other marsupials has revealed that the creatures lost genetic diversity long before ...

The researchers analyzed 483 mammoth remains, mostly molars but also tusks and bones. The oldest samples are 1.1 million years old and belonged to a steppe mammoth — a species that later gave rise to ...

Just like humans, mammoths had a robust community of microorganisms living on their skin and inside their bodies. Now, for the first time, scientists have identified some of the individual species ...

Genetic-sequencing techniques have uncovered the oldest host-associated microbial DNA ever recorded — inside samples of teeth and bones from woolly and steppe mammoths.