Not all animals have the name recognition of a T. rex or a dodo. However, plenty of well-known animals have vanished from the ...

A limestone quarry in Hunan province, China, has yielded more than 150 species dating back approximately 512 million years — ...

Scientists say a Chinese fossil site offers the first major look at life after the Sinsk mass extinction.

The Wondiroi tree-kangaroo was believed to be extinct for decades, until it wasn't. Read here to learn more about these rare ...

New humpback whale study shows older male whales were more likely to become fathers and younger males were less likely to do ...

The Galápagos Islands are famous for their biodiversity, especially their giant tortoises. In 2000, however, scientists made a shocking discovery: a population of tortoises 70 miles away on Isabela ...

Researchers studying the soft-bodied Ediacaran biotas of the world generally accept that there are three distinct assemblages. The 575–560-million-year-old (Ma) Avalon Assemblage is best known from ...

‘Crime against wildlife’ probe launched after 40kg of dead pangolins found in suitcase - ...

Giant clams (Tridacna gigas), members of the family Tridacnidae and among the most striking inhabitants of tropical coral ...

A lost cache of 250-million-year-old fossils from Australia has rewritten part of the story of life after Earth’s worst mass extinction. Instead of a single marine amphibian species, researchers ...