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 ...

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

Earth's history is marked by violent mass extinctions that have shaped life on the planet. Here's how the five mass ...

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

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, ...

New reconstructions of 540 million years of climate history show the planet tumbling between icehouse and hothouse states, ...

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

Most people size up animals by how tall they stand or how long they stretch, but weight tells a different story. Measuring by mass alone reveals which creatures carry the most bulk.

Canada is known for its wide-open landscapes, but it’s the animals that bring those places to life. From the quiet grace of ...

The museum tapped artists — including Chicago rock screenprinter Jay Ryan — to visualize a 15-million-year period in time ...

We know the dinosaurs of the Mesozoic era and the woolly mammoths of the ice age. But what about the millions of years in ...

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