In the backwash of Fennario The black and bloody mire The dire wolf collects his due While the boys sing ‘round the fire” – ...

A 50,000-year-old fossil of Simosthenurus occidentalis, a giant short-faced kangaroo, has been uncovered in Nightshade Cave, Victoria.

A new peer-reviewed study has found that, unlike modern kangaroos, the extinct marsupial megafauna Protemnodon were less ...

Humans in Argentina may have survived 20,000 years ago by hunting giant armadillos, according to a recent study. This ...

Imagine standing in the heart of ancient Australia, surrounded by dense eucalyptus forests and wide-open plains. Suddenly, ...

Many huge animals went extinct surprisingly recently. When they died, their ecological role was lost with them.

A study of 50,000 houses from the late Pleistocene to the onset of European colonialism has revealed that social inequality isn't inevitable, but rather a consequence of political choices.

The map is from a paper titled “A male Denisovan mandible from Pleistocene Taiwan” published in the journal on Thursday. Photo: Screen grab from the Science Web site Genomic evidence suggested that ...

Colossal Bioscience says it has “de-extincted” the dire wolf, but other scientists disagree and say more important conservation science is being lost in all the hype ...

A fossil Pleistocene-age hominin jawbone discovered in Taiwan has now been identified as belonging to a Denisovan, according to a new paleoproteomic analysis of the remains. The findings provide ...

Instead of resurrecting them from the dead, Colossal Biosciences used their DNA to bring the supposedly extinct creatures back to life! Every facet of our knowledge about ancient predators that ...