About 22,000 years ago, a giant brown bear lumbered across what is now Portugal. The creature weighed around 385 kg (about 850 pounds), making it one of the largest of its kind ever found, dwarfing ...

That’s key when it comes to protecting coastal South Florida from 20-foot waves from a future storm. “We showed that this was feasible. To do this on a large scale, you need a large installation,” he ...

Some animals once believed extinct have stunned scientists by reappearing decades, centuries, or even millions of years after vanishing from the fossil record or disappearing from human observation.

Robert Irwin has named the animal he believes is most at risk of going extinct in his lifetime, but says there is still ...

A close look at a king cobra in a wildlife setting, highlighting animal behavior and respectful observation ...

The mastodon (the animal) went extinct about 10,000 years ago, but Mastodon (the band) refuse to go anywhere. The Atlanta ...

Greyhound racing will soon be all but extinct in one major city as its largest track will be closed by year's end to make way ...

On West Africa’s stunningly diverse Bioko Island, rare primates are being slaughtered to feed a growing bush-meat trade. When ...

It represents the first known evidence of a cloaca in Synapsids, and the earliest known from the mammalian lineage.