Over the past few hundred years there have been many famous animal extinctions. Most recent animal extinctions are all down to humans with global warming and habitat destruction being the main factors ...

Fifty thousand years ago, North America's landscapes were alive with an astonishing array of enormous creatures. Massive woolly mammoths roamed vast icy plains, while dense forests echoed with the ...

This week in 1936, The Thylacine, more commonly known as the Tasmanian Tiger, went extinct. The Thylacine was native to Mainland Australia and like many other Australian mammals, was a Marsupial, ...

Nearly two decades ago, scientists in Newcastle came surprisingly close to resurrecting the extinct gastric brooding frog.

New evidence shows ancient humans lived in Britain during the Ice Age, using tools and survival skills to adapt to extreme ...

Elephants are plagued by the same deadly bacteria that infected mammoths, genetic experts have found. A study of mammoth ...

Research shows humans caused the extinction of most giant animals shortly after arriving in new regions, reshaping ecosystems.