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

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

Hawaii Theater brings endangered animals to life through puppetry, dance and live music in Honolulu on Sept. 18 and 19.

We can study animals from all over the world thanks to science, but what about those that no longer exist? The list of extinct mammals could go on for ages, but each animal has a unique story. With ...

For animator and academic Dr. Jason Kennedy, palaeoart isn't just a hobby. Creating 3D images of prehistoric animals sits at the intersection of science and art, combining fossil analysis, comparisons ...

One animal holds a world record so bizarre it required the invention of modern cloning just to make it possible. The Pyrenean ...

Evolution has resulted in the development of both herbivores and carnivores -- but how? What type of food did extinct vertebrates eat? And how can we gain insight into the diets of these creatures? In ...

There’s a word for the final remaining member of a species: endling, which was suggested in a letter written to Nature in 1996. “An orphan is someone, usually a child, with no living parents. A ...

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the International Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ...

Giant sloths, mammoths, saber-toothed cats: the wild creatures that once roamed America alongside its first people, and why ...

Brandon Ballengée’s ‘Frameworks of Absence’ (2006–ongoing) in the Ronald Feldman Fine Arts booth at the 2015 Armory Show (photo by Jillian Steinhauer/Hyperallergic) (click to enlarge) The animals have ...