As ecosystems struggle with overpopulation of prey species, some scientists suggest cloning extinct predators to restore ...

Despite its adaptability and durability, the dire wolf and other great animals went extinct around 10,000 years after the last cold age. Climate change, predator competition, or human hunting may have ...

One of these was a dire wolf, located by Ashley’s colleague Cassidy Sharp. She said, “You get to be the first human that has ever seen this animal before and I think that’s a really special feeling.” ...

A traveler got a very unpleasant welcome to Boston, Democrats staged a silent protest and a jewel thief got creative. Test your knowledge of the week in news, and take last week’s quiz here ...

The researchers concluded that the tracks were likely carved into the sediment by prehistoric humans who were dragging a travois on the ground to transport items. White Sands National Park is home to ...

A species that was once declared extinct is making a comeback. ABC Mildura-Swan Hill News reports how the olive perchlet — a fish in Victoria, Australia that once thought to have gone the way of ...

However, it wasn’t immediately obvious which species of prehistoric human the team had found, and the study describing the fossils, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, doesn’t put ...

The rare fish was last spotted in Victoria, Australia in 1929 North Central CMA A fish previously declared extinct has been released back into the wild in Australia. The olive perchlet ...

Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch followed the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event that killed off non ...