Two marsupial species, absent from the living record for roughly 6,000 years and known only from cave fossils in western New ...

Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon. Not all species that have been classified as ...

There's a strange assumption most of us carry around without noticing it: that scientists have basically finished cataloguing ...

Millions of years of isolation have shaped Australia's extraordinary mammal fauna into species unlike anywhere else in the world, from platypus to koalas and wombats. Tragically, Australia is the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Quentin Martinez and Eli Amson are discussing the braincase and olfactory bulb endocast of the mammoth skull from the SMNS ...

Some species officially bid us farewell this year. They may have long been gone, but following more recent assessments, they’re now formally categorized as extinct on the IUCN Red List, considered the ...

Scientists say the findings help fill a major gap in the fossil record from Asia during the first 10 million years of the "Age of Mammals" A collection of ancient fossil teeth is helping scientists ...

Scientists are increasingly worried we may be witnessing the start of the “sixth mass extinction” – the first to be caused by human activities. Five earlier mass extinctions, caused by dramatic but ...