THE secrets of the woolly rhino’s demise has finally been revealed after stunned scientists found DNA in a place they weren’t ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Oxford has shown that the shape and orientation of coastlines ...

Scientists have long treated mass extinctions as events locked deep in the fossil record. That framing now feels less distant. New research points to patterns that resemble earlier biological ...

Little is known about why the woolly rhinoceros went extinct around 14,000 years ago. Scientists have found clues in an unusual source: the frozen remains of an ice age wolf.

Quick Take Six animal species, including the slender-billed curlew and Christmas Island shrew, were confirmed extinct in 2025 ...

Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery from the remains of a wolf puppy found in Siberia, which had eaten woolly ...

The last meal eaten by a wolf cub before its demise, some 14,400 years ago, has yielded new insight into how the woolly ...

A massive ice age wiped out ocean life 445 million years ago, reshaping ecosystems and setting the stage for jawed fish ...

About 445 million years ago, Earth nearly wiped out life in the oceans. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...

A spectacular fossil trove on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen shows that marine life made a stunning comeback after Earth’s greatest extinction. Tens of thousands of fossils reveal fully aquatic ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - The last Tasmanian tiger died in captivity in 1936. Nearly 100 years later, scientists believe they are on the edge of reviving the species. The Tasmanian tiger is a bit of a misnomer ...

Dire wolves, the canine companions from Game of Thrones and an extinct species of the real world, are back, but how did they make their return? A new documentary plans to reveal the scientific ...