So many extinction-level events happened in ancient times, it is a wonder anything survived. These the ones that killed the ...

Explore China's rare and unique wildlife—from giant pandas and golden snub-nosed monkeys to the elusive Chinese alligator.

A long time ago, strange predators roamed the Caribbean — not just birds and snakes, but land-dwelling crocodiles that ...

To breathless media coverage, a company called Colossal Biosciences now claims to have produced three genetically engineered ...

A snail thought to be extinct is now one of the rarest animals at Longleat. The giant magnolia snail, measuring six-and-a-half centimetres, was believed to be extinct until living specimens were ...

Panda fans in Japan are keeping their eyes on Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei, twin giant pandas at Tokyo's Ueno Zoological Gardens, ...

Long thought extinct, sebecid fossils found in the Dominican Republic are rewriting what we know about ancient predators in ...

Imagine a crocodile built like a greyhound—that's a sebecid. Standing tall, with some species reaching 20 feet in length, ...

Giant kangaroos stayed local, and rapid climate change gradually destroyed their lush rainforest home, leading to extinction.

A new study indicates the giant reptile Deinosuchus is not a close relative of modern alligators, as scientists previously ...

Researchers may have discovered Mississippi's largest ever mosasaur after pulling a Cretaceous-aged fossil out of a riverbed ...

Dire wolves — or really, wolves with traits like the extinct species — are back. But New York has plenty of its own ...