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Giant extinct kangaroos' preference for home over roaming may have sealed their fate
Giant kangaroos stuck close to home and went extinct when climate change caused that home to disappear, according to a study ...
If we must bring back extinct species, let's focus on the giant herbivores
The American genetic engineering firm Colossal Biosciences recently announced to much fanfare it had "de-extincted" the dire ...
Fossil teeth show extinct giant kangaroos spent their lives close to home – and perished when the climate changed
Australia’s giant Protemnodon kangaroos didn’t die out everywhere at the same time. Instead, extinction proceeded one habitat ...
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The Ancient ‘Terror Crocodiles’ of North America Weren’t Alligators After All, DNA and Fossils Suggest
A new study indicates the giant reptile Deinosuchus is not a close relative of modern alligators, as scientists previously ...
Australia once had giant kangaroos — here's what experts think happened to them
A new peer-reviewed study has found that, unlike modern kangaroos, the extinct marsupial megafauna Protemnodon were less ...
Discovery shows bizarre behaviour led to extinction of giant kangaroos at ancient site
Scientists made the discovery at an outback research site in Central Queensland’s Mt Etna Caves region. For thousands of ...
Extinct Animals That Lived Alongside the Native Americans
Did you know Native Americans once shared the land with some truly wild creatures that are now extinct? 🦣 From woolly ...
Forget dire wolves. New York was once home to giant beavers, mastodons and more.
Dire wolves — or really, wolves with traits like the extinct species — are back. But New York has plenty of its own ...
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If we must bring back extinct species, let’s focus on the giant herbivores
Australia lost all its large animals, including a giant wombat-relative called diprotodon ... they decimated populations of many marsupials, driving some extinct. Lesser bilbies, desert bandicoots ...
Extinct Giant Amphibians Found in Perfect Death Pose After Mysterious Mass Die-Off 230 Million Years Ago
An in-depth assessment reveals that dozens of giant amphibians died on an ancient floodplain. Around 230 million years ago, ...
Cameras captured this endangered giant reptile: It’s the first sighting in over a decade
Local news media and animal lovers, as well as park officials, have all delighted in the news, with one media outlet saying that the sighting of the rare species “has renewed optimism for the species’ ...
An ancient ‘terror crocodile’ became a dinosaur-eating giant. Scientists say they now know why
One of the largest crocodilians that ever lived preyed on dinosaurs. New research has found the fearsome Deinosuchus had a ...