The Japanese wolf, last seen in 1905, was a cross between a giant variant and an unknown variant, scientists said in a theory that differs from two existing hypotheses on the mysterious creature. The ...

Scientists previously thought hopping was impossible for Protemnodon goliah.

announcing in March 2024 that it has succeeded in creating iPS cells from the Asian elephant, which is genetically most similar to the woolly mammoth. Science news site Live Science has compiled a ...

New research led by UNSW Sydney palaeontologists challenges the idea that indigenous Australians hunted Australia’s megafauna to extinction, suggesting instead they were fossil collectors. Renowned ...

Indigenous Australians may have been fossil collectors, not hunters that drove megafauna to extinction, new research suggests. For more than 40 years, cuts in the lower leg bone of a now-extinct giant ...

Genetic data extracted from ancient teeth has shed light on the “evolutionary relationship” between a living orangutan and an extinct giant ape from about two million years ago. The dental enamel, ...

Australia’s First Peoples were more early paleontologists than extinction-driving butchers, a group of scientists argue. For decades, the debate over whether the first humans to inhabit present-day ...

The company attempting to bring back the woolly mammoth has now set its sights on a new extinct species. Colossal Biosciences has announced it will attempt to 'de-extinct' a group of birds called the ...