The eastern and southern forests of Australia are home to koalas. This habitat is being destroyed by human deforestation as ...

The Dodo Returns? After 300 years, the extinct dodo might walk the Earth again. Science is rewriting history. After 300 years ...

From dire wolves to woolly mammoths, the idea of resurrecting extinct species has captured the public imagination. Colossal ...

More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, new research has revealed.

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Scientists created transgenic mice with woolly mammoth–like traits. But does it really bring us closer to bringing back woolly mammoths?

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Marsupial moles have been known to science for over a century, and to indigenous peoples for many thousands of years, but they remain amongst the least known and elusive animals in Australia ...

The owner of the kangaroo spotted last year hopping around Pierson, Florida, a city located in the northeastern part of the state, received almost $1,000 in fines and costs during a hearing ...

SYDNEY, March 20 — Scientists stalking a small marsupial through a remote Australian rainforest say they may have found a clue to the mystery of why its bigger kangaroo cousins hop instead of walk.

Scientists stalking a small marsupial through a remote Australian rainforest say they may have found a clue to the mystery of why its bigger kangaroo cousins hop instead of walk. Kangaroos and ...

Scientists stalking a small marsupial through a remote Australian rainforest say they may have found a clue to the mystery of why its bigger kangaroo cousins hop instead of walk. Kangaroos and ...