Ten thousand years ago, mastodons vanished from South America. With them, an ecologically vital function also disappeared: ...

Biologists have confirmed the existence of a 200-million-year-old species of egg-laying mammal that has been assumed to be extinct.

If the cave art painting really captures a dicynodont, it predates formal paleontology. They've been extinct for about 250 ...

The idea of reviving extinct creatures has transitioned from science fiction to an emerging scientific reality. With ...

The dodo bird thrived for millennia in Southeast Asia, then on Mauritius island where they had no natural predators and ...

But something huge must have historically existed to develop the instinct that makes 15-pound carp flee for their lives.

Wondering which animals are in the Ice Age movie? Keep reading to learn what these animals are called in real life.

No one has photographed one of these giant pigeons since 2013. A company is using AI to analyze forest sounds to detect if ...

The word "dodo" is synonymous with extinct animals. In fact, if you asked people to name an extinct animal who wasn't a dinosaur or woolly mammoth, dodo bird would probably be the most popular ...

Colossal recently raised $200 million in its Series C funding, achieving a remarkable valuation of $10.2 billion. The financing is fueling not just efforts to resurrect dire wolves, but also ambitious ...

Lion-Tailed Macaque Jerdon’s Courser is a nocturnal bird species found in the scrub forests of Andhra Pradesh. Once thought extinct, it was rediscovered in 1986. The species faces threats from habitat ...

From striking Blue Iguana, which resembles the colour of the sea, to an adorable sea otter, here are eight wild animals that have made a remarkable comeback.