“Its distinctive skull suggests it used fast and powerful bites to catch small and agile prey...,” said Love Dalén, professor ...

The "Carnival of the Nearly Extinct Animals," a live music and dance show raising awareness for endangered species, comes to ...

Not one but two different species of animal, both thought to be extinct, have been spotted alive in the wild in what has been hailed as an “exceptional discovery”. In a study, published in Records of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. © Ken Yatomi, Bishop Museum The post A Gliding Possum Genus Thought Extinct for 6,000 Years Was ...

Newly sequenced DNA from bones found in the Yukon and Wyoming reveals that despite its slender body, Miracinonyx trumani is ...

‘Oddly shaped rock’ found in California – which is actually from ‘spectacular’ 10,000-year-old extinct mammal ...

With their slender bodies and long front legs, Miracinonyx trumani—often nicknamed the "American cheetah"—was long thought to be a North American analog of the African big cat. But in a new study ...

New paleogenomics research reveals how the so-called American 'cheetah' adapted to harsh Arctic conditions by preying on fish ...

Cormorants are one of the world's most impressive bird species. They can take to the air in seconds and have a diving capacity that exceeds most ducks and other aquatic birds. Their grace and agility ...

Fossilised shark teeth from Egypt's Western Desert reveal prehistoric ocean life. Scientists discovered teeth from five extinct shark species in the Abu-Tartur Plateau region. These ancient predators ...