Tens of thousands of years ago the world was covered by giant animals known as megafauna, many of which are now extinct. These animals that used to be way bigger include mammoths, a giant ...

Why did Africa lose so many giant herbivores? New findings point to slow species formation, not faster extinction.

Paleontologists have used an Ice Age fossil found 120 years ago in an underground cave to reveal that extinct giant echidnas roamed southeastern Australia during the Pleistocene Epoch, filling a major ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. We’re losing species at an alarming rate. Could freezing the genetic material of the world’s most endangered animals help save them? Biotech ...

If there are two things you picture when you hear the word “kangaroo,” chances are it’s either a mama with a joey in her pouch or their propensity to hop across the Outback. It’s daunting enough that ...

The Indonesian archipelago’s waterways are now a boundary separating many of the country’s landmasses. However, this was not ...

Learn more about a Megalibgwilia owenii fossil, found around 120 years ago, that today fleshes out the extinct echidna’s extent. In 1907, an Australian naturalist spotted a shard of a bone from the ...

On February 20, 2026, 158 juvenile giant tortoises, each with DNA from the long-extinct Floreana giant tortoise species, were released on Floreana in the Galápagos archipelago. Researchers ...

When a Mississippi Delta couple went to spend time on the Mississippi River recently, they expected to find fossils from long-extinct animals. After all, they find them all the time. However, what ...

Learn more about ancient giant kangaroos and the previous research claiming they were too heavy to hop. A new study finds that hopping may have been one of the few movement methods for these ancient ...