Beneath California's modern coastline lie remnants of an ancient Ice Age landscape, revealed by submerged village sites and megafauna fossi...

A recent study from Aarhus University's ECONOVO Center concludes that human hunting, rather than climate change, was the primary cause of m...

An ostrich nest typically spans 9-10 feet and can hold 30-40 eggs. The discovery of nearly 3,500 ostrich eggshell fragments within a 1x1.5 ...

African Parks, a conservation charity, has acquired the largest private collection of rhinos in the world, the Platinum Rhino farm, with pl...

Over the past 500 years, as humans’ ability to kill wildlife at a safe distance has become highly refined, 2% of megafauna species and 0.8%...

The first species to be described, Aepyornis maximus, has often been considered to be the world's largest bird, researchers said.

New York, April 27 (IANS) Early humans probably reached North America 130,000 years ago -- 115,000 years earlier than previously thought, c...

New York, Jan 21 (IANS) The poop of some of the ancient huge and astonishing creatures that once roamed Australia has indicated that the pr...

Many of the world's biggest and iconic animals such as the Bengal tiger could be extinct by the end of the century if drastic conservation ...

The timing and cause of rapid extinctions of the megafauna, that roamed the plains of Patagonia in southern South America, has remained a m...

Since 1500, more than 320 terrestrial vertebrates have become extinct. Populations of the remaining species show a 25 per cent average decl...